Future lunar bases will depend on materials that can withstand radiation, extreme temperatures, vacuum, and abrasive dust while supporting power generation, storage, and transmission at increasingly large scales. The review highlights how radiation-tolerant photovoltaics, regolith-based thermal storage, lunar-derived conductors and other ISRU-compatible materials could reduce launch mass and help enable more resilient lunar energy infrastructure.
Bruker today announced the launch of the XFlash® 7200 FIRE, the world’s first inclined large-area Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) detector for Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) built on Bruker’s revolutionary four-segment Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) architecture.
The U. S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory is building on more than 40-years of leadership in metal powder synthesis and metallurgy with a new refractory metal powder atomization system that will help researchers develop materials for extreme environment applications.
Lithium Ark, the technology company pioneering a new approach to lithium refining, today announced that its proprietary process, now named Ark Loop, has been granted a European patent.
Researchers estimate that waste streams from Alberta’s Athabasca Oil Sands Region contain substantial quantities of titanium, zirconium, rare earth elements, vanadium, and nickel that could represent secondary critical mineral resources. However, complex mineralogy, stable metal-bearing compounds, environmental risks, and regulatory challenges mean economically viable recovery will require substantial technological development.
Some of nature’s most important chemical reactions rely on the coupled movement of negatively and positively charged particles. These processes play central roles in photosynthesis, catalysis and biological energy conversion yet remain difficult to observe.
For decades, we have treated used nuclear fuel as high-level waste to be buried and forgotten.
Western Australia increased hard-rock lithium production tenfold between 2010 and 2024, supplying 37% of global lithium production as major projects combined large resources, rapid development, financing, and established mining infrastructure. The study found that project quality, scale, market conditions, and regional capability shaped commercial performance, while domestic lithium hydroxide refining continued to face substantial technical and economic challenges.
In partnership with A.J. Tuck Company, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a new manufacturing approach that could simplify production of critical components for advanced nuclear reactors and other energy and defense applications.
A computational preprint screened nearly 92 million compositionally complex materials to determine how elemental mixing alters neutron transport in fusion shielding. The study identified two proposed neutronic cocktail effects involving scattering, absorption, and atomic density that could guide lower-cost, more resource-efficient nuclear materials.
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