New recipe for efficient, environmentally friendly battery recycling

Although it looks as easy as brewing coffee, the exact procedure is a unique scientific breakthrough

20-Oct-2023 - Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are now presenting a new and efficient way to recycle metals from spent electric car batteries. The method allows recovery of 100 per cent of the aluminium and 98 per cent of the lithium in electric car batteries. At the same time, the ...

Clariant announces price increases for Detergents & Intermediates

04-Apr-2011 - Clariant's Business Unit Detergents & Intermediates announces a minimum 10% price increase for its TAED, Hostapur® SAS, Glyoxal, Glyoxylic Acid and Oxalic Acid product lines. The adjustments, which will become effective immediately or as contracts allow, reflect accelerating raw material costs ...

Nanoscale Cubes and Spheres

Uniform porous silicon oxide nano-objects formed by controlled disassembly of a lattice structure

05-Jan-2007 - Porous nano-objects with defined sizes and structures are particularly interesting, for example, as capsules for enzymes, a means of transport for pharmaceutical agents, or building blocks for larger nanostructures. The production of such tiny, three-dimensional objects in a targeted and ...