Chinese molybdenum prices are unchanged from last week when market participants have different views on the market outlook. Some people though prices of molybdenum chemical products will rise sharply while others believed market prices will continue to maintain stability.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

The ferro tungsten and tungsten powder prices are in the upward trend as a result of logistical constraints limiting market supply. With the influence of coronavirus, many producing companies have not come back to work yet but the market demand is growing.

Rare earth market quotation in China: the latest prices of terbium oxide, dysprosium oxide and praseodymium neodymium oxide were in the upward trend in the week ended on Friday February 14, 2020. For other products, their prices remained unchanged on low trading activity in the market. 

Molybdenum market quotation in China: the ferro molybdenum, molybdenum oxide and molybdenum powder prices were rose slightly in the week ended on Friday February 14, 2020 despite quiet market inquiry and cautious sentiment of traders.

Professor Chunlei Guo and his team from the University of Rochester School of Optics have used powerful femtosecond laser pulses to etch tungsten surface with nanoscale structures, which has increased the solar energy absorber efficiency by 130%, making it a perfect solar absorber. Related results were published in the journal Light: Science and Application.

Tungsten hexafluoride products in Hebei rank the world's first place, with an annual output of 1,000 tons. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of Hebei Province, in 2019, the economic operation of the province's electronic information industry has shown a good development momentum, and various economic indicators are stable. The industry's main business income reached 172.01 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.5%. Among them, the main business income of the manufacturing industry reached 129.51 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%. The software industry realized the main business income of 42.05 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.0%.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

Transport restrictions in China affecting tungsten raw material supply amid the coronavirus outbreak have led to a more active tungsten spot market in China and as a result have lifted prices in the global market. 

The terbium oxide, dysprosium oxide and praseodymium neodymium oxide prices edged higher but market deals are still hardly concluded. On the one hand, with the continuous of the coronavirus, some rare earth companies in the north have already resumed production. 

The molybdenum concentrate and ferro molybdenum prices in China maintained stability on Thursday February 13, 2020. Due to the effective control of the coronavirus, the transportation is gradually recovering and downstream users are likely to replenish stocks.

A group of materials scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) discovered that Y3Pd2, the yttrium and palladium intermetallic compound, can improve the efficiency of carbon-carbon cross-coupling reactions. Their findings point the way to a more sustainable world through catalyst.