Copper is a strategic metal essential to modern economies. However, its future supply is increasingly uncertain due to declining ore grades and surging global demand. In a new study published in ...

The use of aluminium in wiring is unlikely to bring a smile to the face of anyone who has had to deal with it in a 1960s, or early 1970s-era house. The causes behind the fires and other accidents were ...

A group of chemists at Tsinghua University have developed a nano-scale structure that combines copper, gold and silver to work as a superior catalyst in a reaction whose performance will be essential ...

Kenji Hata (Prime Senior Researcher), the Nanotube Research Center (NTRC; Director: Sumio Iijima) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST; President: Ryoji ...