A team of engineers, chemists and materials scientists in China and the U.S. has found a material that can be used to dramatically speed up charging time for lithium batteries without loss of capacity ...

In Greek myth, Niobe claimed that having fourteen children made her a better mother than the goddess Leto, who had just two.

Niobium is a metal in groupVB of the periodic table with atomic number 41, an atomic weight of 92.91, and a density of 8.4 Mg/m 3. Its melting point is 2468 C, and it boils at 3300 C. The electronic ...

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THE titanium–niobium system appeared to be very suitable for an examination of the formation and ageing characteristics of martensitic α because published results suggested that an essentially ...

But on February 13, a team of researchers from China and Japan reported in the journal Physical Review Letters that they had found strong signs that niobium diselenide (NbSe 2) can become a Bose ...

Tardiff has a MRE of of 192.7-million tonnes at 1.3% total rare earth oxide and 0.3% niobium, containing 636 000 t of neodymium oxide and praseodymium oxide (NdPr) and 578 000 tonnes of Nb₂O₅. ...

Is coltan - the notorious conflict mineral from which these two metals are derived - still being smuggled from DR Congo into Rwanda, to evade taxes and sourcing controls? Laurence Knight ...

CBMM has a mine with over 800 million tons of niobium reserves and holds 82% of the world niobium market share. A consortium of five Chinese companies has acquired a 15% stake in Brazil's ...