Black Rock Mining’s chief executive has cautioned that the rapid move to electric vehicles could replace reliance on Middle Eastern oil with dependence on China’s control of key battery metals like ...

Here on Earth, diamonds generally come in just the one form you're used to, but a team of Chinese scientists has managed to ...

A spray-dried composite containing 15% nano-silicon and just 1% single-walled carbon nanotubes retained 95.3% of its capacity after 100 charge-discharge cycles, compared with 68% for a carbon nanotube ...

A major mining project in western Alaska is generating fresh momentum for the United States’ push to break China’s grip on key industrial minerals — and the latest findings suggest the effort may be ...

Nuclear reactors – both old and new designs – use a lot of graphite as it is a key component. It is also one of the components in a reactor that gets deformed due to the radiation. The reason behind ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world’s oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in ...

electrolytic solution; discharged battery cell; eco-friendly; electrochemical exfoliation; graphene oxide These reported studies help to understand the steps of the process via acidic electrolytes, ...

Researchers at US-based Rice University have been working on ways to make sodium and potassium-ion batteries viable through cone and disc graphite structures for the anode. The study, which was ...

The combined analysis of Raman and EPR data revealed that graphitization occurs in three distinct temperature intervals. At 2,100°C, the product resembles natural graphite but retains a higher density ...