Commodity prices are always volatile, but in 2022 metal and mining markets reached new levels of turbulence, as the pandemic played out in China and the Ukraine war upended global energy. 

A new redox-active layer adds energy storage capacity and suppresses corrosion in lithium-sulphur batteries.

A team at Ohio University carried out a series of simulations showing how coal can be converted to valuable—and carbon-neutral—materials.

Finnish company Sensment announced the launching of a new technology that significantly improves the production efficiency of lithium.