H.C. Starck Tungsten invests in battery pioneer

Nyobolt is the Only Known Tungsten Intensive Battery Business Nearing Commercialization

19-Jul-2022 - H.C. Starck Tungsten Powders (HCS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Masan High-Tech Materials ("MHT"), announced the signing of definitive agreements to invest £45m (approx. €52m) into Nyobolt Limited, a fast-charging Li-ion battery solutions company that leverages HCS's advanced tungsten materials ...

Chemist created a niobium-silica catalyst to boost petrochemical reactions

Catalyst reduces the time of alkylation reactions from several hours to just 10 minutes

08-Oct-2020 - Alkylation reactions are used in the petrochemical industry to obtain high-octane number components for gasolines. A chemist from RUDN University found a way to speed this process up to 24 times. To do so, he developed a catalyst based on silica and niobium. The results of his work were published ...

Alternative material investigated for superconducting radio-frequency cavity resonators

18-Jul-2019 - In modern synchrotron sources and free-electron lasers, superconducting radio-frequency cavity resonators are able to supply electron bunches with extremely high energy. These resonators are currently constructed of pure niobium. Now an international collaboration has investigated the potential ...

Terahertz flashes uncover state of matter hidden by superconductivity

06-Jun-2018 - Using the physics equivalent of the strobe photography that captures every twitch of a cheetah in full sprint, researchers have used ultrafast spectroscopy to visualize electrons interacting as a hidden state of matter in a superconductive alloy. It takes intense, single-cycle pulses of photons - ...

Superconducting synapse may be missing piece for 'artificial brains'

30-Jan-2018 - Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting switch that "learns" like a biological system and could connect processors and store memories in future computers operating like the human brain. The NIST switch is called a synapse, like its ...

Reusable ruthenium-based catalyst could be a game-changer for the biomass industry

05-Sep-2017 - Known for their outstanding versatility, primary amines (derivatives of ammonia) are industrially important compounds used in the preparation of a wide range of dyes, detergents and medicines. Although many attempts have been made to improve their synthesis using catalysts containing nickel, ...

Nitrades in transition

12-Jun-2017 - The average, everyday person might not be familiar with gallium nitride, also known as GaN, but there is a good chance they've heard of silicon, a semiconductor that's been used for decades and found in every computer and most electronics. As a semiconductor, GaN is similar to silicon, but it ...

Gum metals pave the way for new applications

Scientists discover peculiarities in crystal structure of titanium alloy

02-Feb-2017 - Metals which can be bent as gum pave the way for new industrial applications for example in the aerospace industry. These so-called gum metals exist but the mechanism behind this behaviour was still unsettled and thus difficult to be used for applications. Scientists from the Max-Planck-Institut ...

Discovery could lead to jet engines that run hotter - and cleaner

18-Jan-2017 - Researchers here have made a discovery in materials science that sounds like something from the old Saturday morning cartoon Super Friends: They've found a way to deactivate "nano twins" to improve the high-temperature properties of superalloys that are used in jet engines. The advance could ...

New thermoelectric material with high power factors

17-Nov-2016 - With energy conservation expected to play a growing role in managing global demand, materials and methods that make better use of existing sources of energy have become increasingly important. Researchers reported this week that they have demonstrated a step forward in converting waste heat - ...