Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Graphite shafts are nothing new. They’ve been in drivers and fairway woods for decades, nearly every hybrid comes with a graphite ...

"The better the quality of graphite, the better battery you're going to have. We can't mine it here in the U.S., but now we can make it." The performance and cost are competitive. A preliminary techno ...

Lithium might be the new oil, but it’s just one of several materials needed to make the batteries powering today’s electric vehicles. There’s also cobalt, nickel and manganese, all of which have ...

The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the difference? Researchers are finding out. How molten carbon crystallizes into ...

Graphite is the most common, stable, crystalline form of carbon and has a wide variety of end uses in nuclear, automotive, and high-technology industries. For instance, in rechargeable lithium-ion (Li ...

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Why it matters: Graphite is the largest component in lithium-ion batteries by weight. Accounting for losses during the manufacturing process, it takes over 30 times more graphite than lithium to make ...