How to Use transition metal in a Sentence

transition metal

noun
  • The transition metal ions stay put.
    — Tracy Staedter, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The Schuck lab works with transition metal dichalcogenides.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
  • One idea is to prevent the transition metal ions from migrating.
    — Tracy Staedter, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The cathodes are made up of layers of lithium and transition metals, namely nickel, manganese, or cobalt.
    — Tracy Staedter, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Lithium-rich batteries replace some of the transition metals in the electrodes with lithium.
    — Tracy Staedter, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The researchers observed that the oxygen serves as a kind of lifting mechanism to separate the transition metals from the substrate.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Aug. 2016
  • Second, a dilute hydrochloric acid is used to dissolve the remaining lithium and the transition metals—nickel, cobalt, and manganese.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The study reports that for the cell tested at the 70% charge level, this process recovered over 93% of the lithium and 95% of the transition metals.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The outer region increases the oxidation state of transition metals, which helps suppress reactions with water and carbon dioxide.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Mar. 2026
  • In Canada, those minerals sit in the same rock formations where miners already dig for copper, nickel, and diamonds, or explore for critical green transition metals like lithium and cobalt.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026
  • In experiments described in the journal Physical Review Letters, the researchers grew these transition metals on an iridium surface.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Aug. 2016
  • Instead, scientists and engineers have been exploring the universe of transition metal dichalcogenides, which all have the chemical formula MX2.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2020
  • TMDs are made up of materials that combine one of 15 transition metals such as molybdenum or tungsten, with one of the three members of the chalcogen family such as sulfur, selenium, or tellurium.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Two-dimensional nanomaterials only a few atoms thick are being pushed to new frontiers, with scientists synthesizing MXenes that pack up to nine transition metals into a single ultrathin sheet.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers revealed that this cathode features a distinctive spatial separation of copper from the other transition metals (Ni, Fe, and Mn) within individual particles.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
  • Manufacturing transistors that combine silicon with transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) requires an extremely precise process.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 June 2026
  • Researchers reported the experimental realization of single-crystalline θ-phase tantalum nitride (θ-TaN), a metastable transition metal nitride predicted to overcome this limitation.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Jariwala and colleagues are researching solar cells made of the 2D semiconductors called transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), which include materials such as tungsten selenide and molybdenum disulfide.
    — Prachi Patel, IEEE Spectrum, 15 June 2023
  • While crucial to the performance of Li-ion batteries, especially for electric vehicles (EVs), these two critical transition metals come with several significant drawbacks, including toxicity issues, high costs and severe fire risks.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Now researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany have taken this oxidation process for four transition metals (manganese, iron, cobalt and nickel) to a new level.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Aug. 2016
  • Scientists at Rice University have discovered that beams of light can physically shift atoms in a class of ultra-thin semiconductors known as Janus transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), unlocking a new way to tune materials for next-generation optical and quantum technologies.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025

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