Like wind and solar farms, batteries and high-speed trains, electric vehicles depend on copper’s unmatched electrical and thermal conductivity, meaning the auburn element is set to be a ...

From transport to communications to health and education, we all rely on resources like copper every day. And we’re only going to need more copper as innovations like electric vehicles and ...

Scientists lead by EPFL, the University of Copenhagen, and Shanghai University have developed a copper catalyst that can ...

New research out of Macquarie University has identified the probable locations for critical metals needed to support a green economy.

and they are different from the atoms of all other elements. For example, copper and gold are elements. A piece of gold contains only gold atoms. A piece of copper contains only copper atoms.