Of all things molybdenum could crash cobalt, nickel price party
Posted by CuMoCo in In the News
by Friks Els – Mining.com
Cobalt’s rise to six-digit territory seems inexorable as the hype around electric vehicle demand for battery materials shows no signs of cooling.
According to a report from Phys.org, a team led by Kyeongjae Cho, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Texas, found that molybdenum, mainly used as an alloy in the steel industry, solves the problems associated with lithium sulphur batteries:
- Molybdenum creates a material that adjusts the thickness of the coating when combined with two atoms of sulfur, a coating thinner than the silk of a spiderweb.
- It improved stability and compensated for poor conductivity of sulfur, thus allowing for greater power density and making lithium-sulfur batteries more commercially viable.
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04 Apr 2018