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A shift toward processing monazite ore could dismantle China's dominance in rare earth elements, offering a radioactive but viable path to domestic chip manufacturing security.
Material science startup MacroCycle has partnered with Meta to build its first commercial plant, scaling a low-temperature chemical recycling technology that produces virgin-grade polymers for consumer hardware.
As AI data centers shift toward optical interconnects and advanced nodes, China's control over critical rare earths erbium and yttrium poses a severe threat to hardware scaling.
As Commonwealth Fusion Systems secures fresh funding and Thea Energy wins federal backing, the fusion sector is shifting its focus from plasma physics to the industrial scaling of high-temperature superconducting magnets.
As physical limits choke copper's conductivity at advanced nodes, researchers are turning to topological materials and exotic quasiparticles to solve the semiconductor interconnect crisis.
CuspAI is scaling its AI-powered platform for accelerated materials discovery, aiming to revolutionize industries reliant on novel materials with a new $450M funding boost.