Lithium batteries power much of our modern engineering, including smartphones, electric vehicles, pacemakers, and industrial aircraft. Unfortunately, the process of extracting lithium from the Earth ...
The production of rare earth metals is a global $4 billion annual market that continues to grow as new electronics, computerized engines for aircraft, warships, electric automobiles, magnets and other ...
One of the biggest arguments against the clean energy transition is that mining techniques to power EVs and devices create waste and deplete resources. However, researchers have been working to ...
The extraction and recovery of niobium and tantalum are critical to meeting the growing demand for these strategic metals in advanced technological applications. Traditionally, both metals have been ...
Today’s high-tech electronics and green energy technologies would not function without rare earth elements (REEs). These 17 metals possess unique properties essential to creating items like the ...
Canada-based startup pH7 Technologies has developed a new chemical process solution that can extract precious and critical metals, mainly platinum-group metals (PGM) from both primary and secondary ...
Scott Dunbar receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) under a Discovery Grant and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of ...