Green steel from toxic red mud

An economical process with green hydrogen can be used to extract CO2-free iron from the red mud generated in aluminium production

01-Feb-2024 - The production of aluminium generates around 180 million tonnes of toxic red mud every year. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, a centre for iron research, have now shown how green steel can be produced from aluminium production waste in a relatively simple way. In an ...

Surprise at the nanoscale: Silicon atoms jump after contact with metal

Max Planck researchers reveal unknown behaviour of semi-conductors at the nanoscale

30-Oct-2015 - Silicon is presently the most proper ingredient for microelectronic devices: it serves as basic material for all current computer chips. According to the increasing importance of electronic set-ups, the term “Silicon Age” is widely-used nowadays. Further, the nickname Silicon Valley, representing ...

Living metals: Microscopic Structure of Crystalline Material Fluctuates

27-Apr-2005 - Using Synchrotron x-ray microbeams, a research team from the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart and the ESRF has been able to observe for the first time that the microscopic structure of a crystalline material fluctuates in time. The results are just shed in Science Express ...