KNOWLEDGE
TOPSTORY
2 Giants, 20 Years: The Consolidation of China’s Rare Earth Industry
2 Giants, 20 Years: The Consolidation of China’s Rare Earth Industry
The raw materials superpower: Rare earths and China are often mentioned in the same breath. There is a decades-long strategy behind this.
ANALYSES, BACKGROUND, INTERVIEWS
Indium: More Than a Beautiful Facade
From energy guzzler to solar cell – the glass building front can look back on a turbulent history.
It Takes Indium to Make the Perfect Blue
Indium and manganese make colors shine. The discovery came about by accident.
Problematicum and Plagiarism: Who Discovered Tellurium?
Accusations of plagiarism have been around for centuries. And the presentation of the then new element tellurium in 1798 in Berlin was overshadowed by a row about intellectual property.
Strategic Metals – Increasingly Critical Resources
Viel wird derzeit über strategische Metalle geschrieben. Doch was ist mit der Bezeichnung gemeint?
