The trading of the world’s first industrial silicon futures started at the Guangzhou Futures Exchange on Thursday, in a move that experts said will help stabilize prices of the metal…
The Aerospace industry is currently facing a titanium supply shortage after international sanctions were placed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
The European Commission has come up with a new legislative proposal, the European Critical Raw Material Act, to help boost supplies of minerals such as lithium and rare earths.
The entire high-tech sector depends on materials with limited supplies concentrated in a few countries. The great powers (USA, China and the European Union) compete in a global race to achieve mineral security.
Researchers at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) are proposing a solution to some of the issues plaguing silicon micron-particles (SiMP), which hinder their use in lithium-ion batteries.
It’s a slow-moving market that rarely makes headlines, to be sure, but there’s no denying that titanium is among today’s best-performing metals, observes Clif Droke, resource sector expert and editor of Cabot SX Gold & Metals Advisor.
A new report by IDTechEx estimates that incorporating 20% silicon into an anode could improve a battery’s energy density by 17%, this being one of the main reasons why a high number of early-stage companies are focusing on developing silicon anode materials, compared to other areas of lithium-ion development.