You don’t hear about tantalum watches everyday. If you follow the space closely, you hear about titanium, ceramic, carbon, even meteorite and watches with cases made entirely of sapphire crystal — to ...

In the middle of a long and tough war, an unexpected problem is quietly hurting one of the world’s most powerful armies. It’s not soldiers, tanks, or guns—it’s a rare metal called tantalum. Though few ...

Designers are attracted to tantalum’s unusual blue-gray sheen. But then their artisans learn how dense it is and start complaining about broken tools. By Victoria Gomelsky In 1994, when Edouard Meylan ...

Researchers working to improve the performance of superconducting qubits, the foundation of quantum computers, have been experimenting using different base materials in an effort to increase the ...

Tantalite is the primary mineral host for the tantalum identified at Shaakichiuwaanaan. Tantalite is commercially recovered as a by-product from multiple lithium pegmatite operations globally using ...

Scientists have discovered that adding a layer of magnesium improves the properties of tantalum, a superconducting material that shows great promise for building qubits, the basis of quantum computers ...

LE LOCLE, Switzerland & LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stollenwurm and AB Concept announce a major advancement in the production of tantalum for watchmaking. Both companies are ...

Chenyu Zhou, a research associate in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory and first author on the study, with Mingzhao Liu (CFN), Yimei Zhu (CMPMS), and ...