The new technique is called switchable solvent selective extraction, or S3E. It uses a temperature-sensitive solvent to pull ...

Demand for lithium is skyrocketing as factories across the world churn out electric vehicles and the massive batteries that ...

According to the researchers, more than 95 percent of the lithium in spent batteries can be recovered after mechanochemically treating the cathodes and then leaching them with CO₂-rich water, where ...

The United States is accelerating domestic lithium production through government investment, new extraction technologies, and ...

Demand for lithium is skyrocketing as factories across the world churn out electric vehicles and the massive batteries that make wind turbines and ...

Emerging DLE technologies offer higher recovery efficiency, faster production times, and a smaller environmental footprint compared with traditional methods like solar evaporation. Current pilot ...

Novalith is emerging as a premier provider of environmentally clean and sustainable processes to extract and refine lithium, particularly as demand for battery-grade lithium is projected to skyrocket ...

U.S.-based manufacturing eliminates Chinese supply chain risk, supporting secure domestic lithium production OAKLAND, ...

While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique ...

A company hoping to extract lithium from underground brines in south Arkansas announced Tuesday that it had completed technical testing that it said demonstrated that the direct lithium extraction ...

Conventional lithium extraction requires several complex steps, as well as the use of acid and high temperatures, over the course of several hours. Researchers at Penn State have developed a new ...