A new recycling technique developed in China claims to capture 99.99% of the lithium in spent electric vehicle batteries, a level of recovery that would have sounded fanciful only a few years ago. By ...

Demand for lithium is rising fast as electric vehicles, wind turbines, and grid-scale batteries multiply worldwide. But extracting the metal remains slow, water-intensive, and limited to a few ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...