Yesterday's polluting fuel could be transformed into a valuable material for tomorrow's electric vehicle batteries, thanks to ...
Soft, dark-gray graphite is not just useful in pencils: The highly conductive and heat-resistant mineral is uniquely suited ...
Turning plastic into solid carbon is not easy. Heat the polymers to rearrange their carbon atoms, and they decompose into light hydrocarbons and gases. But researchers at the US National Energy ...
Federal researchers are working to convert agricultural waste and discarded plastics into battery-grade graphite, a material ...
Why it matters: Graphite is the largest component in lithium-ion batteries by weight. Accounting for losses during the manufacturing process, it takes over 30 times more graphite than lithium to make ...
US-based Urbix is a clean graphite processor with plans to establish a footing in Europe. To learn more about its ambitions, the wider EV supply chain and the idea of some OEMs taking mining in-house, ...