At the beginning of the week, the overall focus of domestic rare earth prices shifted significantly, and the prices of praseodymium, neodymium, dysprosium and terbium products fell the most, mainly due to their large increase in the early stage, the general low sentiment of downstream users to receive goods recently, and some industry players being bearish about the market outlook. 

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in collaboration with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, have found that nanoscopic metal layers such as refractory tungsten layers can improve the growth tolerance of dendritic in solid-state lithium battery electrolytes.

At the beginning of the week, China molybdenum market continues to be weak. The prices of sodium molybdate, ammonium molybdate and ammonium heptamolvbdate decline slightly. 

An international team of scientists led by University of Oldenburg physicist Dr. Hangyong Shan and Prof. Dr. Christian Schneider has succeeded in creating a material - normally these materials are of low energy level - that after changing the energy level in an ultra-thin sample of the semiconductor tungsten diselenide (WSe₂) to enable it to emit light.