Mr. MINTZER: My suggestion is that we give up our desire to pick a single winner in the battery field and begin to look at what the range of possibilities are.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) will officially endorse the new element's name in six months' time in order to give the scientific community "time to discuss the suggestion".
"They want to ensure that the right people are called to give evidence, and that there isn't any suggestion that there's a cover-up in relation to anything that has gone on, " Ms Alexander said.