Im kinda curious if this can actually be backed up by data lol analyse or datascrape natures article counts and compare with chinese patents in said field
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Well this is semi anecdotal but the Nobel is an example. Chemists complain about the Nobel in Chemistry being a biology prize. Nobel is basically an indicator of public/regime interest. Meanwhile despite the dominance of biology in academia it isn't valued in the market.
Yes, extracting lithium from seawater is the new frontier.
Getting sodium from seawater is called desalination. It's a process humans have been doing for thousands of years.
Isn’t that just extracting salt?
A leap in study on superconductors: China's scientists discovered that moderate amount of hydrogen can facilitate superconductivity in epitaxial infinite-layer nickelates, highlighting the critical role of hydrogen as an "invisible hand" to change material's electronic structure..
A team of professors has created China's polymeric material genome research and development platform, AI plus polymer. The platform can make predictions about the various properties of resins and find the optimal ratio of various components in resin preparation..
I seriously doubt this. Lithium concentration in seawater is far too low to be worth extracting. The concentration of sodium exceeds lithium by 350,000x.
To put this in perspective, it would take roughly 5x global desalination capacity to process enough water to extract as much lithium as China produced in 2022, and China's a pretty small player in lithium mining.