On 20 January, the Serbian Prime Minister announced Serbia was withdrawing the spatial plan and revoking licences related to Rio Tinto’s proposed Jadar lithium-borates project.
MXene electrodes with stable voltage output and high energy density could pave the way for new and powerful energy storage batteries, say scientists at City University of Hong Kong (CityU).
Grant Budge FIMMM has been named as Chief Executive of the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA). He is a chartered engineer and Fellow of IOM3 and a member of the UK Science Council.
Britishvolt, the UK battery company, has received an in principle offer of government funding though the Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF) for its planned gigafactory in Blyth, Northumberland.
A study published in the journal Global Environmental Change reveals a new policy tool, known as Plastic Drawdown, could reduce plastic waste in the Maldives by 85% by 2030
Carbon-neutral liquid fuels produced from sunlight and ambient air are under development and could deliver sustainable aviation and shipping, claim scientists.
Volkswagen and Bosch want to grow manufacturing processes for battery cells to achieve cost and technology leadership in equipping cell production factories in Europe.
A group of scientists led from Nagoya University, Japan, developed an inexpensive, scalable way to produce high-temperature superconductors using ‘grain boundary engineering’ techniques.
Scientists from Cornell University, USA, are engineering bacteria to extract rare earth elements (REE) – a process that they believe could replace the thermochemical methods currently in use.
