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Endangered elements

25 Sep 2019

The long-term supply of key elements in many hi-tech devices is under threat, but is there really a disaster on the horizon? Richard Stevenson investigates

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All systems go In January 2018, an Australian firm called Alkane Resources announced that it had developed a proprietary process for separating hafnium from zirconium at its demonstration pilot plant. (Courtesy: Alkane Resources)
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Richard Stevenson is the editor of Compound Semiconductor magazine
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