Many electric vehicles are powered by lithium-ion batteries that rely on cobalt — a scarce, expensive metal with high environmental and social costs. A team of researchers from Japanese and French ...

There’s been an era-defining race underway between two types of batteries used in electric vehicles: lithium batteries that use cobalt, and ones that use iron phosphate. Cobalt, a metal with a ...

The world’s No. 1 cobalt miner is sounding the alarm over the shrinking role of the metal in electric vehicle batteries. Chinese company CMOC Group, which has been churning out cobalt much faster than ...

With the ability to release and absorb oxygen at low temperatures, this metal oxide could improve everything from fuel cell ...

This week, cobalt chloride enterprise offers remained at 70,000-75,000 yuan/mt, with a weak market trading atmosphere. Cost side, intermediate product prices have risen to 14.4-14.6 $/lb, providing ...

Scientists have developed a crystal that can "breathe" oxygen, which could transform everything from clean energy devices to ...

Tests showed that as a zinc-air battery cathode, CoFe-2DSA achieved a power density of 229.6 mW/cm², a specific capacity of ...

Over the past six months, the price of cobalt has more than doubled, rising to over $25 per pound. The move had been steadily building over the past year until it went hyperbolic in February. The ...

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