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Roskill: Niobium industry looking for a future beyond steel; Li-ion batteries a possibility

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However, the spike in vanadium prices (ferrovanadium prices increased by about 200% in 2018) caused Chinese mills to substitute niobium to vanadium and Chinese niobium imports increased 30% year-on-year both in 2018 and 2019. Moreover, Roskill forecasts that China’s steel production is close to its peak. Griffith et al.

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Sasol-Tata CTL JV Expects to Be In Production in 2018

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Sasol Synfuel, which has entered into a joint venture with Tata Steel to build a US$10-billion, 80,000 barrel per day coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant in the Indian state of Orissa ( earlier post ), expects the venture to be operational by 2018. The project is India’s first major CTL project. “In

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Freudenberg secures majority interest in Li-ion battery maker XALT Energy; full acquisition coming

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In March 2018, Freudenberg announced it had acquired a 31% ownership stake in XALT Energy through a multi-million dollar investment in its operations. In 2018, Freudenberg agreed to work with a leading provider of electrical power distribution and automation for the marine industry to explore battery solutions for its applications.

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Hyundai Motor Group and Seoul National University open joint battery research center; focus on Li-metal and solid-state

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A key feature of the Joint Research Battery Center will be its focus not only on theoretical research, but also research and development that considers mass production. In the case of general industry-academia research, additional time and cost are inevitable to apply the results to mass-produced products. trillion (US$7.4

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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An active IEEE volunteer, Hodges served in several leadership roles including 2007 vice chair of the IEEE Awards Board and 2011–2012 vice president of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board. He also served as the 2018–2019 chair of the IEEE Technical Activities Board periodicals committee.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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The venture spawned dozens of products, including the first silicon integrated circuit, thus fueling the rise of Silicon Valley. But it was Kim and his colleagues at Fairchild who realized the first CCD devices that evolved into commercial products widely used in digital photography, radiography, and astronomy.

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China bets on open-source chips as US export controls mount – ET Auto

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Some 1,061 patents involving RISC-V were published in China last year, up from 10 in 2018, Anaqua’s AcclaimIP database shows. In 2019, researchers at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China organised a seminar on how RISC-V could help China achieve tech self-sufficiency. While the U.S. ’s 2,018.

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