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TANAKA is a precious metals specialist that excels at delivering innovation to the world that brings value to society. “Elements” is an online media circulated by TANAKA Precious Metals that focuses on technology and sustainability information in line with the business and values of the company. It provides hints for creating a better society and prosperous earth for the future in response to the rapid paradigm shift of the modern world.
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Technology
Articles related to technological progress and trends
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Vitamin-powered batteries: how ‘self-driving’ labs are using AI to develop remarkable new materials
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Growing Market for Automotive Catalyst
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Achieving Stable Supply Through Recycling
– Contributing to Decarbonization Using Advanced Materials –
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Building an electric aircraft is a ‘war on weight’
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New photocatalyst boosts water splitting efficiency for clean hydrogen production
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World’s first wearable device that converts body heat into electricity
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Solar-powered chemistry uses CO2 and H2O to make feedstock for fuels, chemicals
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Longer lasting sodium-ion batteries on the horizon
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Scientists craft living human skin for robots
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NASA is setting out to develop nuclear power on the Moon
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Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot
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Ultrathin fuel cell uses the body’s own sugar to generate electricity
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Nuclear fusion hit a milestone thanks to better reactor walls
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Enhancing the Reliability of Precious Metals for Brazing Filler Metals in Power Devices
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Manipulating atomic motion could make metals stronger and bendier
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Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough
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Stanford engineers made a tiny LED display that stretches like a rubber band
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Safer, more powerful batteries for electric cars, power grid
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Electrical Properties to Augment Demand for Products in Supercapacitor Market
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Light could boost performance of fuel cells, lithium batteries, and other devices
Introducing articles about TANAKA featured in the Japanese edition of Business Insider, the largest news site in North America
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This Japanese precious metal manufacturer is leading the development of metal plating for smartphone connectors
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The creation of a new high-entropy alloy is opening up possibilities in manufacturing, from 3D printing to paste-like inks
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