Catherine Renouf describes how indium went from being a rather inconspicuous element to one whose role as a component of high-technology devices and gadgets may deplete its worldwide resources. A ...

The long-term supply of key elements in many hi-tech devices is under threat, but is there really a disaster on the horizon? Richard Stevenson investigates All systems go In January 2018, an ...

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Behnam Akhavan receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Have you ever imagined your smart phone or tablet without a touch screen? This could soon be the case if we run out of ...

These elements are traded in small quantities. Nevertheless, there is expected growth in demand for these elements proportional to the growth of technology. The elements are Lithium, Cobalt, Germanium ...

Atoms of the soft, silvery metal indium have been chilled to temperatures so cold that the particles can demonstrate strange quantum behaviour, such as forming new types of matter. Because indium ...

The supply of indium for the production of copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS) thin-film solar cells and modules in Europe could be provided exclusively by an EU supply chain and would not ...