KNOWLEDGE
TOPSTORY
Year in Review: 2024 – Déjà-vu or Step Forward?
Year in Review: 2024 – Déjà-vu or Step Forward?
De-risking and diversification remained key topics in 2024, at least when it comes to securing critical raw materials. From a European perspective, the...
ANALYSES, BACKGROUND, INTERVIEWS
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?
Neodymium: Technology Metal With Strong Magnetic Properties
Super magnets with neodymium can be found in headphones, wind turbines and e-motors. The raw material is among the rare earths of the lanthanide group.
