There’s a famous scene in one of the Star Trek movies where Scotty, who has traveled to the past, teaches a metal company to create the transparent aluminum he needs to bring some whales back to the ...

Spot refined cobalt prices continued to move sideways this week. Supply side, mainstream smelters held their offers steady, and traders maintained a stable spot-futures price spread ranging from ...

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) represent a class of two-dimensional lamellar materials characterised by brucite-like metal hydroxide sheets separated by interlayer anions and water molecules. Their ...

When a chunk of alkali metal gets tossed into water, it explodes. But when a team of scientists gently placed a liquid drop of a sodium-potassium alloy on top of a water surface, they observed a ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) As two-dimensional (2D) materials gain more and more importance – thanks to their exotic electronic properties and abundant active sites – the development of high-yield, efficient ...

Ammonia is added to solutions of cobalt, nickel, and copper 2+ cations. First formation of the hydroxide precipitate is seen, then of the ammonia complex. Pour 0.1M solutions of Cu2+, Co2+, and Ni2+ ...