Natural graphite is not only mined and sold; it is engineered, refined and embedded into materials designed to meet increasingly demanding industrial specifications. Its high electrical and thermal ...

A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications ...

Given the growing importance of graphite in energy storage technologies, a team of Northwestern researchers has conducted a study exploring ways to reduce reliance on imports of the in high-demand ...

A team of scientists from Penn State has developed a new, flexible cement made from nanomaterials that could help solve the problem of natural gas well leaks. Leaks from natural gas wells are a threat ...

Electric vehicles, grid storage and consumer electronics are turning a once sleepy industrial mineral into a strategic prize, ...

"In order to chemically remove single sheets from a graphite crystal one has to overcome the huge attractive interactions present in the 3D crystal," Jan Englert, a PhD student at the Institute of ...

The elements of the periodic table are the building blocks of everything around us. All matter is composed of at least one element or a combination of two or more elements. The elements make up the ...

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / August 5, 2025 / NextSource Materials Inc. (TSX:NEXT)(OTCQB:NSRCF) (NextSource or the Company) and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC), Japan's largest chemical ...

Researchers have designed and tested a new electrolyte composition that could greatly accelerate the adoption of the next generation of lithium-ion batteries. Argonne's new electrolyte mixture ...