This week's element is Hafnium, which has the atomic symbol Hf and the atomic number 72. Hafnium gets its name from the Latin for Copenhagen, where it was discovered. Hafnium is a shiny, ...

Feb 3 (Reuters) - Shortages created by robust demand from the aerospace and electronic industries as growth accelerated after the lifting of COVID restrictions have fueled a 400% rise in hafnium ...

TITANIUM AND ZIRCONIUM have traditionally dominated group 4 chemistry. Hafnium, the third member of this group of early transition metals, has been the odd element out. But not anymore. Steady ...

It's inside your phone, your fighter jet, and the next generation of nuclear reactors. Why does it cost so much?

Shawn C. Burdette and Brett F. Thornton examine hafnium’s emergence from ores containing a seemingly identical element to become both a chemical oddity and an essential material for producing nuclear ...

The discovery of high temperature superconductors in polyhydrides encourages searching for new types of hydrogen rich superconductors. Most of experimentally reported high Tc polyhydride ...

The market for hafnium, a metal crucial to both the aerospace and nuclear energy industries, may remain a relatively tiny one for now. But look for it to grow much bigger in the global infrastructure ...

ONE consequence of the growth of microelectronics has been an exploration of the periodic table reminiscent of European navigators' search for the spice islands half a millennium ago. Then, as now, ...

Forgive my little foolishness but I do like to go back to past claims of how everything is running out and measuring them up against reality. And here's something from the New Scientist published back ...

We are moving into one of the two times of year when the heartbeat of IT journalism develops arrhythmia. People are on holiday or moving around the place, thoughts are turning to enjoying or surviving ...