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Solar-powered chemistry uses CO2 and H2O to make feedstock for fuels, chemicals

Solar-powered synthesis gas could recycle carbon dioxide into fuels and useful chemicals, an international team of researchers has shown. "If we can generate syngas from carbon dioxide utilizing only...

Ready to catalyze shift to a hydrogen society

Platinum-based catalysts are instrumental in the transition to a hydrogen society. TANAKA Source: February 19, 2025 “Ready to catalyze shift to a hydrogen society” (The Japan Times) As Japan’s ...

How Do Hydrogen Fuel Cells Work: Explained in Simple Terms

Understanding how hydrogen fuel cells work is imperative in an era where the quest for sustainable energy solutions and reducing carbon footprints are more critical than ever. These devices, central t...

TANAKA Precious Metals Group Supporting the miniaturization of chip wiring and promoting recycling From general-purpose to cutting-edge chips, the future of semiconductors is supported by precious metals

Taking on the stable supply of rare materials The TANAKA Precious Metals Group has a long history of participating in the semiconductor products business, dating back to the 1960s. It began with th...

5 experts on how trade and investment can facilitate circular electronics

Electronics waste is the fastest growing waste category globally, yet problems persist with collection and recycling. When e-waste is recycled properly it offers an energy efficient source of raw ma...

Continued Dialogue Makes Diversity More Visible: Satoshi Ichiishi, Group COO, TANAKA Holdings Co., Ltd.

Photography by Ari Takagi July 25, 2024　MOVE. DEI Driving Companies (MASHING UP) Founded in 1885, the TANAKA PRECIOUS METAL GROUP has been a leader in the precious metals industry. Spearheading...

Intel unveils largest-ever AI ‘neuromorphic computer’ that mimics the human brain

Scientists at Intel have built the world's largest neuromorphic computer, or one designed and structured to mimic the human brain. The company hopes it will support future artificial intelligence (AI)...

This 3D-printed soft robotic hand has ‘bones,’ ‘ligaments,’ and ‘tendons’

Researchers 3D-printed a robotic hand, a six-legged robot, a 'heart' pump, and a metamaterial cube. Top Image Credit: ETH Zurich / Thomas Buchner To call soft robotic hands “complex” is a bit of an u...

Wire Handling Instructions (For Power Devices)

Aluminum bonding ribbon Aluminum bonding wire Copper bonding wire Aluminum bonding ribbon ①Remove from the case ②Unwind the ribbon Do not loosen the ribbon ...

How machine learning is changing the way businesses think about customer behavior

The machine learning revolution is here, and it’s changing the way we do—and conceive of—business. From generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT to Netflix’s automated personalized movie recommendations, m...

A step towards solar fuels out of thin air

A device that can harvest water from the air and provide hydrogen fuel-entirely powered by solar energy-has been a dream for researchers for decades. Now, EPFL chemical engineer Kevin Sivula and his t...

Concentrating solar thermal technology ready for efficient use in Germany

Concentrating solar thermal systems are still little known in Germany, although they are a highly efficient approach to producing heat from solar energy. In such a system, specialised mirrors arranged...

What is machine perception? How artificial intelligence (AI) perceives the world

Table of contents Types of machine perception Which human senses can machines mimic well? Is machine perception hard? How do the major AI companies handle machine perception? How are startu...

Google is testing a new robot that can program itself

Top Image: Charlotte Hu Writing working code can be a challenge. Even relatively easy languages like HTML require the coder to understand the specific syntax and available tools. Writing code to cont...

Copper: Facts about the reddish metal that has been used by humans for 8,000 years

Shiny, reddish copper was the first metal manipulated by humans, and it remains an important metal in industry today. The oldest metal object found in the Middle East consists of copper; it was a tin...

Inside the high-powered process that could recycle rare earth metals

Researchers at Rice University successfully separated rare earth metals out of old computers and other waste. Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Look in the second row from the bottom of most periodic table...

Finding the cause of a fatal problem in rocket engine combustors

Rocket engines contain confined combustion systems, which are, essentially, combustion chambers. In these chambers, nonlinear interactions among turbulent fuel and oxidizer flows, sound waves, and hea...

Amazon, UPS say hydrogen is further down the road than electric

Dive Brief: Amazon expects hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles to be lighter, fuel faster and have longer range than battery-electric vehicles, Middle Mile Fleet Leader Tiffany Nida said during a ...

Tesla AI chief explains why self-driving cars don’t need lidar

What is the technology stack you need to create fully autonomous vehicles? Companies and researchers are divided on the answer to that question. Approaches to autonomous driving range from just camera...

Using drones to reduce disease-spreading mosquito populations

Credit: N. Culbert/IAEA. Vector-borne diseases are illnesses that can be transmitted to humans by blood-feeding insects, such as mosquitoes, ticks and fleas. Mosquitoes are known to contribute to the...

Elisa demos 5G remote vehicle controls and architectural 3D on phones

February 2020’s cancellation of the mobile industry trade show MWC 2020 deprived European carriers of the opportunity to show their latest 5G innovations to a global audience, but Finland’s Elisa — on...

Meteorite-eating microbes could help us look for alien life

What might alien life look like, and what traces would it leave behind? If extraterrestrial plant and plankton analogs fill their planet’s atmosphere with oxygen, or an advanced civilization fills its...

We Radically Rethink How We Make Food?

Farmers have grown food in roughly the same way for thousands of years: planting seeds and watching them grow; raising animals from birth to slaughter; hoping that nature provides them the right amoun...

Application and Value of Optimal Precious Metals in Surgery and Medical Treatments that are Gentle on the Patient

Application and Value of Optimal Precious Metals in Surgery and Medical Treatments that are Gentle on the Patient Real needs from patient are most importantly to develop the new medical devices.The...

How China is Cornering the Lithium-ion Cell Recycling Market

The commonly held view that lithium-ion batteries are not being recycled is not true. It's just that China has pretty much cornered the market, experts say. China recycled around 67,000 tons of lithi...

Apple to use recycled rare Earth materials in new iPhones

Apple has requested that its iPhone manufacturers uses recycled rare Earth elements in the Taptic Engine part of the new iPhone 11 variants. The Taptic Engine powers haptic feedback in new iPhone 11, ...

Precious Metals Plating Electrodes (PEM Water Electrolysis GDL / Insoluble Electrodes)

Precious Metals Plating Electrodes (PEM Water Electrolysis GDL / Insoluble Electrodes) PEM water electrolysis is one of the optimal methods for producing green hydrogen using renewable ener...

Platinum Coating

Platinum Coating Pt film after ACT processing The synergy effect of the mechanical characteristics of refractory material and the corrosion resistance of platinum contributes to the ...

Washable, breathable and stretchable – the next generation of smart fabrics

Until now, there have typically been two ways of making clothing conductive: either wrap fibers in fine metallic wire (or stitch it in), or apply adhesive circuits onto the surface. Both of these work...

Nanomaterials are changing the world – but are they safe?

Experts Shareen Doak, Martina G Vijver and Martin Clift explain the problems of ensuring nanomaterials are safe for environment - and us... NANOTECHNOLOGY may well be one of the most talked-about ind...

Palladium Leading the Platinum-group Metals Market and Beyond

  Palladium's strong fundamentals lead the pack for platinum-group metals. Platinum-group metals (PGMs) are six similar transitional metals that include palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium,...

Scientists Develop Recycling Process That Could Lead To “Zero Waste” Cell Phones

  Published on May 22nd, 2018 | by Nexus Media May 22nd, 2018 by Nexus Media  Originally published on Nexus Media. By Marlene Cimons How often do you swap out your old smartphone for a n...