Engineers have developed a new technology that enables the direct extraction of lithium from solid salt mixtures derived from ...

Menachem Elimelech, the Nancy and Clint Carlson Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Photo credit: Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University). In the race to meet the growing global demand for ...

Why it matters: Lithium-ion batteries have become essential in modern electronics and in efforts to migrate infrastructure to renewable energy sources. Through rigorous testing, researchers recently ...

Carmakers are quickly adopting the newest generation of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are cheaper than their predecessors. But recycling lithium from the lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) ...

The rise of electric vehicles is a critical part of the move away from fossil fuels and the "greening" of transport. However, it isn't without its environmental challenges, one of the major issues ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) have developed an adaptive charging strategy for ...

Scientists have devised an efficient method of recovering high-purity silicon from expired solar panels to produce lithium-ion batteries that could help meet the increasing global demand to power ...

A Rice University research team has unveiled a rapid, acid-free method to recover lithium and transition metals from spent lithium-ion batteries. The two-step flash Joule heating chlorination and ...

‘Industry 4.0’ is the much touted ‘next Industrial Revolution.’ Through the widespread adaptation of automation and feedback technologies, there will not only be cost savings but also overall ...

A new report on the impact of lithium mining in South America’s lithium triangle has found that methods used by companies in the rush to extract the mineral in Chile’s Salar de Atacama has led to an ...

On June 2, full-stack future mobility platform company IL announced that it had completed the registration of a core patent related to lithium metal a ...

In the race to meet the growing global demand for lithium -- a critical component in batteries for electric vehicles -- a team of researchers has developed a breakthrough lithium extraction method ...