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International Ferroalloys Conference
The International Ferroalloys Conference 2019 will take place in Budapest (Hungary) from 17 November to 19 November. This year’s edition features:
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Scientists developed multifunctional metal alloys that can change shape in the magnetic field
Scientists from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) with their colleagues developed multifunctional metal alloys that emit and absorb heat at the same time and change their s...
American Manganese develops a method to recover cobalt from spent batteries
American Manganese entered the lithium-ion recycling business after it realized that the metal processing method it developed for its own property had a much wider application.
The company developed...
25th CRU Ryan’s Notes Ferroalloys Conference
The 25th CRU Ryan's Notes Ferroalloys Conference, which will take place in Miami, Florida (USA) from October 20 to 22, is the most important and largest annual gathering of ferroalloy professionals in...
New process to recover metals from recycled lithium-ion batteries
Perth-based metals developer Neometals is a step closer to proving the technical and economic viability of its proprietary process to recover metals from recycled lithium-ion batteries.
A completed s...
Transforming waste heat into clean energy
Do you feel the warmth coming off your computer or cell phone? That's wasted energy radiating from the device.
With automobiles, it is estimated that 60% of fuel efficiency is lost due to waste heat....
EU aims to become powerhouse of battery production and recycling
The EU plans to invest billions of euros developing a “green label”, sustainable electric vehicle battery industry in a bid to challenge Asia’s market dominance.
The EU battery market could be...
Researchers discover surprising quantum effect in hard disk drive material
Scientists find surprising way to affect information storage properties in metal alloy.
Sometimes scientific discoveries can be found along well-trodden paths. That proved the case for a cobalt-iron...
An environmentally friendly method to recover materials from lithium-ion batteries
Rice University researchers literally have a solution to deal with the glut of used lithium-ion batteries left behind by the ever-increasing demand for electric vehicles, cellphones and other electron...
Scientists find new way to power electric cars using cobalt
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (USA) have developed a new method to produce hydrogen and to use it to power electric vehicles. This new technique uses only water, carbon dioxide...
Metal-organic frameworks composed of cobalt ions to tackle climate change
A WSU research team is working on solutions to climate change. A new process could capture and separate carbon dioxide from gases emitted from industrial processes. The main reason they are researchin...
Billionaires are on the hunt for new underground cobalt
A coalition of billionaires led by Bill Gates has thrown its financial weight behind a startup hoping to build a “Google Maps for the earth’s crust” to hunt for new sources of cobalt. The startu...