The basic process for making steel hasn’t changed a whole lot in the past few hundred years. Into the top of a big, lava lamp-shaped blast furnace goes iron ore and coking coal, and out comes waste ...

Steel production is the backbone of today’s modern economy. The human-made metal is used in just about everything—from bridges and buildings to cars and consumer goods. However, the process to produce ...

Boston Metal completed its first run of an industrial reactor that uses electricity to make steel. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in ...

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A groundbreaking new method promises to reshape the way we manufacture nanoscale electronic components. It could offer a faster, cheaper, and more reliable alternative to traditional chip-making ...

Magrathea’s new electrolyzer can make magnesium using electricity. A California-based company called Magrathea just turned on a new electrolyzer that can make magnesium metal from seawater. The ...

So, you want to know about metallization in semiconductor chips? It’s basically how we create the tiny metal pathways that ...

Phosphine ligands modify the structure of metal nanoclusters in a top-down evolutionary process by "peeling" and "etching.” This phosphine-LEIST reaction allows the construction of metal nanoclusters ...