March 10, 2021

Graphene-enhanced primer proves efficient for marine applications

Talga Group’s Talcoat is obtained from graphite extracted at the Vittangi project in Sweden.

March 9, 2021

NEO to work with silicon nano-coating technology for battery anode materials

The Canadian company has acquired three patents related to battery anode materials from South Korea’s Yonsei University.

March 8, 2021

This is how China plans to be greener by 2025

The country plans to reduce carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 18% through 2025.

March 7, 2021

Anti-dumping investigation could lead to higher costs for European steelmakers – report

Europe-based graphite electrode producers lodged a complaint before the EC alleging that imports of certain Chinese products were being dumped.

March 4, 2021

US broke record on energy storage deployment in Q4-2020

Over 2,000 megawatt-hours of new energy storage systems were brought online in Q4-2020 in the United States.

March 2, 2021

Former Xstrata boss creates Vision Blue Resources and invests in NextSource Materials

Mick Davis is turning his attention to the battery minerals sector and in December 2020 launched Blue Vision Resources to invest in companies with projects that can be brought into…

March 2, 2021

Mason Graphite updates Lac Guéret battery test results

The cells have completed 800 charge/discharge cycles while retaining 82% of their initial capacity.

February 25, 2021

Base and Battery Metals Snapshot: Eight companies pursuing critical minerals

Base and battery metals exploration and development assets in North America that are on investors’ radar screens.

February 23, 2021

Northern Graphite to produce large flake concentrates at Bissett Creek

Larger graphite flake sizes are used in the manufacture of bipolar plates for fuel cells and vanadium redox batteries, as well as primary batteries.

February 21, 2021

New cell chemistry promises to make DIBs more powerful, sustainable

The new cell chemistry for dual-ion batteries uses a zinc anode and a natural graphite cathode in an aqueous electrolyte.