Energy transition reshaping mining industry, demand for critical minerals to triple by 2030 and quadruple by 2040. Copper remains key for clean energy, while nickel faces oversupply issues. Zinc and ...

Over the past two decades, physicists have been fascinated by semimetals — rare materials with zero energy gap, right at the threshold between metal and insulator. Some semimetals can host ...

An insulator has a band structure in which occupied and empty bands are separated by an energy gap. The existence of an energy gap, however, does not guarantee that a material is a simple insulator.

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 21, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the energy needs of data centers continue to significantly outpace supply, a new report from Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE), a global leader in ...

Semimetals can be viewed as a kind of extreme limit of a semiconductor with zero 'energy gap', right at the threshold between insulator and metal. This extreme case remains exceedingly rare in ...