Tozero’s plant outside Munich was set up in six months and is capable of producing 100 tonnes of high-purity lithium carbonate from old batteries each year. German battery and raw materials recycling ...

Many consumers are guilty of filling drawers or closets with old laptops, cellphones, fitness trackers and other electronic devices once they are no longer needed. It’s hard to know where to recycle ...

If “silicon” calls to mind microchips and electronics (or Silicon Valley, the zip code of the tech elite), you’re not wrong. According to board-certified dermatologist Brendan Camp, MD, silicon (Si) ...

This video demonstrates a technique for repurposing old silicone moulds by converting them into liquid silicone and forming a completely new mould. The process shows how used materials can be reused ...

A glowing glass tube is held in a metal clamp against a dark background. Flash Joule heating (shown) is a technique that passes high electric current through materials to heat them quickly and ...

Sometime in the next 15 years, the same technology that produced the world’s first photograph will allow us to make the most powerful, densely packed silicon microchips allowed by physics. It will be ...

Silicon-carbon (Si-C) batteries are the next step forward in an industry that's largely been stagnant for the past 30 years. Traditional lithium-based batteries do the job well enough, but as the ...

China, the world's largest producer and consumer of solar energy, will confront a staggering 33 million tons of decommissioned photovoltaic (PV) modules by 2050, creating an urgent need for advanced ...

Carbon's unique chemical properties allow it to be an essential building block for life on Earth and many other molecules we rely on for day-to-day life—but what about carbon's neighbor? Silicon is ...

Feb 4 (Reuters) - Texas Instruments (TXN.O), opens new tab on Wednesday agreed to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories (SLAB.O), opens new tab for about $7.5 billion, aiming to expand its presence ...