Cobalt prices more than doubled in 2017, fueled in part by demand and investor interest. Rising demand for electrified vehicles could lead to cobalt shortages. The once little-known element cobalt is ...

Equivalent Fermi surfaces generated by density functional theory (DFT) for a specific magnetic space group of cobalt. The theoretical results show strong qualitative agreement with experimental ...

An electric car future is speeding closer; economic analysts project that a third of all automobiles could be battery-powered by 2040. Most of these vehicles rely on large lithium-ion batteries, ...

High-capacity and reliable rechargeable batteries are a critical component of many devices and even modes of transport. They play a key role in the shift to a greener world. A wide variety of elements ...

Tartaric acid from grapes separates the critical elements electrolytically, avoiding complex solvent-based extraction ...