Energy & Green Tech
German car parts company Mahle has announced that it is in the process of developing a magnet-free electric motor that does not require rare earth elements. Company reps report that the new motor is efficient and extremely ...
Engineering
Rare earth elements (REE), a group of 17 metallic elements, are in nearly every piece of technology, including cell phones, televisions, computers and almost every part of a vehicle. The demand for these elements increases ...
Mar 24, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Rare earth materials are essential to a variety of industries. A new study from Argonne explores the effects of supply disruptions such as mine shutdowns.
May 21, 2021
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Engineering
(Tech Xplore)—Anticipate this: a car's motor magnet that does not have heavy rare earth elements. That is big, in that it marks a break from several constraints.
Energy & Green Tech
Materials scientists at Duke University have revealed paddlewheel-like molecular dynamics that help push sodium ions through a quickly evolving class of solid-state batteries. The insights should guide researchers in their ...
Jan 11, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The world has enough rare earth minerals and other critical raw materials to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy to produce electricity and limit global warming, according to a new study that counters concerns about ...
Jan 27, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Critical minerals, including rare earth elements, are used to power devices like smartphones and computers and are essential to our nation's economy and national security. Penn State's Center for Critical Minerals has developed ...
Nov 22, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The periodic table you may remember from chemistry class had two additional rows of elements below the main table. In the top added row are rare earth elements, metals critical in everyday technologies like cell phones and ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Other
Saleem Ali is the University of Delaware's Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment and the founding director of the Minerals, Materials and Society (MMS) Program. Ali recently produced a short, ...
May 4, 2021
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Business
An innovative method of recycling rare earth elements from electronic waste has gone commercial. A team of researchers from the Critical Materials Institute (CMI), a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames ...
Mar 18, 2022
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