Chile's Indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with two of the nation's biggest miners to ...

BacTech Environmental Corp. proudly announces that Company will file a full patent for its Zero Waste initiative, setting a new standard in sustainable mining and resource recovery, on or before ...

Urban biomining can unlock valuable metals in post-consumer waste, aligning with EU targets for critical minerals, economic ...

Following a further launch next year, the company plans to develop ways to mine near-Earth asteroids for the valuable, concentrated metals some ... If the extraction from asteroids is for ...

Research Institute of Natural Gas Technology, PetroChina Southwest Oil & Gasfield Company, Chengdu, Sichuan 610299, P. R. China ...

Baby food, spices, chocolate. And now, Girl Scout cookies. In recent years, tests have found heavy metals like lead in some of the most common food products in American households. A proposed ...

Chinese scientists achieve 99.99% lithium recovery using a groundbreaking, eco-friendly method with amino acid and micro batteries.

Taking inspiration from industrial forging, researchers have demonstrated a way to squeeze molten metals into atomically-thin layers, creating relatively large flakes of 2D metals. Using a ...

Taking inspiration from ancient techniques, researchers have forged relatively large sheets of metal that are just atoms thick, enabling them to more readily study the weird properties of these ...

Sheets of metal just two atoms thick can be produced by squashing molten droplets at great pressure between two sapphires. The researchers who developed the process say the unusual materials could ...

Scientists have long been keen to develop atomically thin 2D metals, thereby expanding the 2D material family beyond vdW layered structures. These ultrathin 2D metals would also enable the ...

The reliability problems mean these tools often require careful human oversight, limiting their value for fully automated data extraction. Even in our seemingly advanced age of AI, there is still ...