Turning plastic into solid carbon is not easy. Heat the polymers to rearrange their carbon atoms, and they decompose into light hydrocarbons and gases. But researchers at the US National Energy ...

Graphite, the carbon core of a humble No. 2 pencil, is also an essential component in technologies such as batteries, ...

As the world's appetite for carbon-based materials like graphite increases, researchers presented evidence this week for a new carbon solid they named 'amorphous graphite.' As the world's appetite for ...

Why it matters: Graphite is the largest component in lithium-ion batteries by weight. Accounting for losses during the manufacturing process, it takes over 30 times more graphite than lithium to make ...

Lithium might be the new oil, but it’s just one of several materials needed to make the batteries powering today’s electric vehicles. There’s also cobalt, nickel and manganese, all of which have ...

An Estonian startup using captured carbon to create sustainable alternatives to materials needed for batteries has just raised 4 million euros, $4.3 million. Tallinn-based Up Catalyst, founded in 2019 ...

The race for European battery independence just found its next battleground in an unexpected place: the trash heap. On June 2, an advanced battery materials firm, Vianode, and German sustainable ...