A solar star is born: GE and Blackrock form a new solar power plant
Image source: GE Reports 22.07.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX - GE and BlackRock, the giant investment firm with trillions of trillions of assets under management, have agreed to build a new powerhouse for the solar industry. As Distributed Solar Development, the company will design, build, own and operate distributed solar and storage solutions for customers. The new company will build on the foundation of the solar business of [...]
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Ultra flexible textile lithium battery for wearables
Researchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) developed a highly flexible and high-energy textile lithium battery that provides a more stable, longer-lasting and safer power supply for wearable electronics with a wide variety of uses, such as medicine, 'smart' textiles, Smartphones, GPS and IoT. Professor Zheng Zijian heads the research team of the "Institute of Textiles and Clothing" at PolyU [...]
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Increased efficiency of solar materials
The rows of blue solar panels that dot landscapes and roofs are typically made of crystalline silicon, the workhorse in practically every electronic device. In solar technology, cadmium telluride could replace silicon. For the past decade, Colorado State University (CSU) researchers have conducted pioneering studies aimed at improving the performance and cost of solar energy by developing new [...]
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Finest raw material particles - from the bubble bath (back) win
Critical raw materials such as copper, cobalt or rare earths often appear in their deposits as increasingly smaller ore grains. This means that they are too small for the usual separation by flotation. The FineFuture project partners now want to research the flotation of very fine mineral particles and develop new technological solutions for it. Rising prices and growing global demand for [...]
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MinSEM - Research project for the closure of recyclable material cycles Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC
Over the next three years, a consortium of seven scientific institutions and companies, headed by the Fraunhofer project group IWKS, will develop innovative processes for the recovery of rare earth elements and platinum group metals from mineral processing and production residues. As part of the MinSEM project, research is being carried out on processes that make it possible to process a wide range of mineral materials in such a way that [...]
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Magnets with rare attraction
The Heusler project aims to produce permanent magnets that, unlike today's permanent magnets, only contain readily available metals. Strong permanent magnets are essential for many technical applications, for example in medical diagnostics, for energy generation or for electromobility. Alloys that contain rare earth metals are currently used for this purpose. Their resources are limited. Therefore, the researchers in the Heusler project are looking for [...]
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Invitation to the workshop - Fraunhofer project group IWKS
On October 15, 2015, a workshop on the subject of "Electro-hydraulic shredding - New method for processing material composites" will take place in the premises of the Fraunhofer project group IWKS in Alzenau. The workshop is organized in cooperation with ImpulsTec GmbH, a young high-tech company that builds and sells high-voltage pulse systems and components for high-voltage pulse technology. In the half-day workshop [...]
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Ultrafine copper powder - prices and manufacture
Like most nanomaterials, ultrafine copper powder is very expensive. In this article we describe where this high price comes from. This is not due to the cost of materials but rather to the complex production process. In order to obtain a copper powder that can be used for medical purposes, the particle size must not be larger than 1200nm (1,2µm), the […]
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New technology brings rare earth from electronic waste
A young US company has developed a process for recovering rare earth elements from electronic waste. The futurezone asked. With his start-up Reecycle (Ree stands for Rare Earth Elements, note), the 25-year-old US entrepreneur Casey McNeil offers a process that allows valuable rare earths to be recovered from electronic waste and at a profit. "We have an organic [...]
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Molecular containers for the extraction of rare earths: New research project "SE-FLECX" started
Rare earths are in great demand because they are required for the manufacture of many high-tech products. However, their extraction from ores is expensive and often polluting. Experts from research and industry, coordinated by the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, are currently testing whether so-called calixarenes could be used as alternative extraction agents in industrial separation processes. Due to their special chemical [...]
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