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We assess the degree of connectedness among 16 metals that are critical for the production of clean energy technologies. These commodities are the constituents of the Energy Transition Metals (ETMs) price index maintained by the International Monetary Fund and comprise base, precious, and minor...

This research was conducted to recover useful products from waste tyre and explore the possibility of using these products as a petrochemical feedstock alternative. Waste tyre sample was pyrolyzed over three different temperatures: 400, 550 and 750 oC. The char, oil and gas yields at the three...

Group 1 metal and chemical industries formed the essential suppliers of British war materials during WW2. Their industrial sectors covered metal manufacture, general and electrical engineering, vehicle production, aircraft production, shipbuilding, metal goods, chemicals and explosives, and...

This paper examines the impact of spillover effects of energy transition metals on the Chilean economy. With the increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable energies and electromobility, metal abundant countries like Chile must ready themselves to remain...

We assess the degree of connectedness among 16 metals that are critical for the production of clean energy technologies. These commodities are the constituents of the Energy Transition Metals (ETMs) price index maintained by the International Monetary Fund and comprise base, precious, and minor...

This Discussion Paper deals with the issue of greenwashing, i.e. the false portrayal of companies as environmentally friendly. The analysis focuses on the US metal industry, which is a major emission source of sulfur dioxide (SO2), one of the most harmful air pollutants. One way to monitor the...

This paper examines how the collective bargaining parties of the German metal and electrical industry, Gesamtmetall and IG Metall, portrayed the Corona crisis in the public sphere. The empirical basis consists of press releases, guest contributions by the chairpersons and press interviews. The...

This study investigates technical efficiency of wood and metal manufacturing enterprise in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopian, using cross sectional data collected from 220 manufacturing enterprise. To achieve the objective of the study the stochastic frontier production function estimated to obtain...

The boost up of soil heavy metal pollution has severely affected the sustainable development of agriculture in China. It is essential to control and resolve the dilemma of deteriorating soil health due to pollution of heavy metals. The contribution of sources and relative sources of heavy metals...

This Discussion Paper deals with the issue of greenwashing, i.e. the false portrayal of companies as environmentally friendly. The analysis focuses on the US metal industry, which is a major emission source of sulfur dioxide (SO2), one of the most harmful air pollutants. One way to monitor the...

Many studies have found that bioretention systems are very effective in reducing heavy metal content. However, their long-term treatment performance, as well as the heavy metal variations in the systems are rarely explored. This paper reports a field study that the accumulation of chromium (Cr),...

The wide application of alkaline water electrolysis is significantly restricted by the lack of highly efficient catalyst that can withstand an industrial current density (400 mA cm −2 ) for both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Herein, a simple “chemical...

Metallic glass composites (MGCs) inherit the high strength of their glassy matrix and exhibit remarkable plastic deformation, hence have great potential in engineering applications. However, their preparation often relays on arduous component exploration or involves elusive technological...

This work investigates the effect of noble metal doping of MoSe2 on its adsorption of ammonia (NH3) gas. Pristine and noble metal doped MoSe2 structures are examined computationally using density functional theory (DFT). Clusters of timers of each Pt, Au, and Ag along with their combination are...

The influences of Ag and Co additions on the thermal stability and glass-forming abilities of twenty (Cu 46- x Zr 47 Al 7 Ag x ) 100 -y Co y ( x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and y = 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5) alloys were systematically investigated by X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimeter techniques....

The jet fragmentation is a crucial process during fuel coolant interactions (FCI) which result in droplets dispersed in coolant and may cause a steam explosion. The present work deals with experimental studies of metallic melt jet fragmentation followed by numerical simulations that support the...

The contribution of sources and relative sources of heavy metals from sampling of cultivated land around typical mining area was analyzed by spatial analysis (SA), input flux analysis (IFA), principal component analysis (PCA), positive matrix factorization (PMF), and isotope tracer. The results...

Rehabilitation of disused mine sites through stabilisation and botanical restoration is ecologically important, but metal transfer pathways to colonising wildlife are often less understood and have never been studied in marsupials. The rehabilitated Royal George tin mine tailings and...

Thiol-functionalized coal fly ash is used as passivator to passivate heavy metals in soil, and the speciation transformation process of heavy metals in soil was investigated. The result indicates the heavy metals in soil can be passivated after few months and the passivation efficiency is in the...

NiTi alloy exhibits superior superelastic properties but its wide application is limited by its poor workability. In this study, Ni-rich NiTi wire was used as the feedstock and a wall-shaped NiTi component with height of 130mm was deposited on Ti substrate by cold metal transfer (CMT) based wire...

A quantitative study of the surface composition of clean metallic and partially oxidized nickel exposed to oxygen was carried out employing X‑ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). It was possible to resolve the previously unreported experimental peak structure of the metallic Ni 2p spectrum....

Applying thermal shock to carbon nanofibers (CNFs) allows the synthesis of small and evenly distributed catalytic nanoparticles (NPs) on its surface. In this study, metal oxide hemitubes (HTs) were synthesized by calcination of a sacrificial template based on CNFs, which were decorated with...

Until now, two-dimensional (2D) materials have shown outstanding potential for new devices based on their interesting electrical properties beyond conventional 3D materials. In recent years, a new concept, valley degree of freedom, has been studied for valleytronics in hexagonal 2D materials. In...

Chalcogenide glasses containing light alkali and Group 11 (Cu, Ag) halides MY (Y = Cl, Br, I) exhibit high ionic conductivity while their heavy alkali counterparts show promising properties for optical applications. The structural role of metal halides in chalcogenide glass networks remains...

The continuous growth of e-waste necessitates an efficient method to recover their metal contents to improve their recycling rate. The successful recovery of the metallic component from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) can generate great economic benefits to incentivize the...

BackgroundThe association between co-exposure to multiple metals and renal function is poorly understood. We aimed to evaluate the individual and joint effects of metal exposure on renal function in this study.MethodsWe performed a cross-sectional study including 5828 participants in Guangxi,...

Methylmercury (MeHg) is a prevalent toxic metal that readily modifies protein thiols. Reactive persulfides that play a role in redox homeostasis are able to inactivate this metal through sulfur adduct formation. Although humans are exposed to other metals that could consume reactive persulfides...

Lithium metal is considered as the next-generation anode material to realize high-energy-density batteries, owing to its high specific capacity and low negative potential. Unfortunately, the practical application of Li metal anode has been severely hindered by sharp Li dendrites and low...

Lithium (Li) metal is considered as one of the most exciting anode materials for next-generation batteries because of its high theoretical capacity and lowest reduction potential. However, the uncontrollable dendrite growth associated with nonuniform deposition and huge volume change during...

Lithium metal is considered to be an ideal anode material due to its ultra-high theoretical capacity and extremely low electric potential. However, the unlimited volume expansion and uncontrollable growth of lithium dendrites during the plating/stripping process hinder its practical application....

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal oxides (TMOs) are widely applied in various research fields. A reliable, general, and facile synthetic protocol applicable for a large variety of 2D TMOs is in emergent demand. S-S/Se-Se bonds widely exist in various metal sulfide/selenide layered crystals....

Heavy metal pollution and the potential for co-selection of antibiotic resistance in the environment is growing concern. However, clear associations between specific heavy metals and types of antibiotic resistance in river systems have not been developed. Here we investigated relationships...