6+ hour, 8+ min ago  (737+ words) Pictured: Black mass powder from recycled lithium ion ev batteries. As the race to secure supplies of lithium accelerates, University of South Carolina Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing researchers are pursuing an unlikely solution: technology originally designed to make…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (686+ words) For centuries, the "paradox of strength and ductility" has challenged material scientists: making a metal stronger typically makes it brittle and prone to fracture. A promising solution lies in a new class of engineered materials known as heterogeneous lamella-structured (HLS)…...