The colors of rubies and emeralds are so striking that they define shades of red and green—ruby red and emerald green. But ...

China hits back at U.S. tariffs by restricting export of crucial metals: tungsten, tellurium, bismuth, molybdenum and indium.

Gate-controllable TMD spin valves enable ultralow power, high-speed operation, offering efficient read/write performance for ...

Energy transition reshaping mining industry, demand for critical minerals to triple by 2030 and quadruple by 2040. Copper remains key for clean energy, while nickel faces oversupply issues. Zinc and ...

Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered ...

A student project has discovered superconductivity in polycrystalline iron-nickel-zirconide. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have identified a groundbreaking new superconducting ...

They combined iron, nickel, and zirconium, to create a new transition metal zirconide with different ratios of iron to nickel. While both iron zirconide and nickel zirconide are not ...

However, oxides with transition metals that straddle the subtle boundary between covalent, ionic and metallic bonding show copious physical phenomena, ranging from high-T c superconductivity in ...

Toxic metals, commonly known as ‘heavy metals,’ are a group of metalloids, transition metals, and basic metals, with high atomic weight, and high density, and are toxic to humans and other ...