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...to discover new materials that could go into the anode, cathode and electrolyte,” said Venkat Srinivasan, director of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science, part of a US national laboratory...
...OnTo Technology, a recycling start-up in Oregon, has started commercial tests of a water-based binder developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory....
...The laboratories developing new battery chemistries are constantly evolving their formulas to use less of the metals that are expensive or hard to acquire....
...Some also believe the ultimate answer to potential shortages of lithium will not be digging more of it out of the African rock, but developing substitutes such as sodium-ion batteries in laboratories....
...One factor driving new US interest in LFP technology is the higher cost of nickel and cobalt as EVs sales grow....
...They ran the gamut from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk to an investigation into human rights abuses in cobalt mining....
...Socrates Economou, head of nickel and cobalt at Trafigura, said there were a lot of large gigafactory battery projects under development in Europe and North America....
...While working prototypes have been developed, each long-range electric car would need at least 20 times the number of battery cells that have so far been tested in a laboratory....
...“I personally think [the most innovation] is still in the United States, in terms of laboratory innovation in new batteries,” he says....
...Harkey also had a low opinion of the laboratory that had the contract for toxicology testing....
...Rising prices for cobalt over the past two years due to growing demand for electric cars have already led to increased land-based production, with the cobalt market now set to be in a surplus over the next...
...In a laboratory on an industrial park an hour’s drive outside Boston, Tufts professor Michael Zimmerman is hoping a material he invented in his basement can help solve a crisis facing the electric car industry...
...For a decade, the 52-year-old played a pivotal role managing battery research at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, the US government’s top laboratory for the technology....
...“Kabila has been playing around for long enough; it’s time for him to go,” says Nawa Punyo, an unemployed laboratory technician who has joined the protests in Lemba, a district of Kinshasa....
...The price of cobalt has already risen by more than 80 per cent this year....
...Cobalt, founded in 2008 as a spin-off from the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, is now working with STFC and two universities on research using the same technology...
...Cardiff University Dental Hospital is working with Renishaw to use 3D metal printing technology to make cobalt chrome dentures....
...Visitors to Blain Southern can expect to find a gallery that resembles a laboratory....
...The $5bn Atlantic Wind Connection project exemplifies the fact that innovation in the energy sector is not always born in the laboratory....
...Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California are on the track of an “artificial leaf”....
...The system consists of cobalt metal, phosphate and an electrode that are placed in water....
...In fact, as for all visual artists, drawing was Monet’s creative laboratory, a place of experimentation where, in innovation and daring, he was repeatedly, inevitably, ahead of what he was doing on canvas...
...Medical Solutions firmed 3.8 per cent to 6¾p on talk that it was close to the £15m sale of its laboratories operation in Dubai....
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