Published 9 Dec 2020
Increasing demand for effective energy storage used in personal devices, electrical cars, renewable energy storage facilities, boosted the global demand for lithium. Lithium-ion batteries are not the only industrial use of lithium (e.g. catalysts, lubricants, heat-resistant glass and ceramics, alloys for aerospace), but…READ MORE >
Tags: lithium, minerals, mining, XRD
Published 24 Jan 2019
Petroleum refineries widely use fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) as a conversion process. This chemical process uses “a catalyst and heat to break long-chain hydrocarbons into smaller-chain hydrocarbons“, thus transforming them into valuable gasoline, distillate, butane and propane fuels1. Catalysts are…READ MORE >
Tags: bromine, Fluid catalytic cracking, lithium
Published 6 Mar 2018
Will the zeta potential of my vesicles vary in different buffers? The short answer is: Yes, it will. In select cases, the value of the measured zeta potential may remain close to the same. However, that is the exception…READ MORE >
Tags: alumina, buffer, conductivity, Debye-Huckel, Debye-Hueckel