Ascend Elements, a Massachusetts-based battery recycling and engineered materials company, and EcoPro Group, a South Korean battery materials company, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) ...

Investors and consumers are captivated by the potential of battery technology as the electric vehicle (EV) revolution advances. Lithium has become a popular term, but rare earth elements (REEs), like ...

What are Endangered & Critical Elements? Of the 118 elements that make up everything—from the compounds in a chemist’s arsenal to consumer products on the shelf—44 will face supply limitations in the ...

China has dominated the market for rare earth elements, but US scientists and companies are scrambling to catch up. Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-­carbon technologies are our best options ...

In a milestone for the U.S. battery materials industry, Ascend Elements recently shipped decarbonized cathode materials to Freudenberg e-Power Systems, one of the world's leading suppliers of ...

The periodic table of elements is under siege. Modern materials use an ever-increasing number of elements, and some supplies are running short. This is presenting a number of supply chain risks: ...

Rare earth elements are 17 chemically similar metallic elements with unique magnetic and luminescent properties. These properties make them indispensable in various high-tech applications, including ...