As the global push toward sustainable energy gains momentum, the role of lithium-ion batteries as vital components in electrification and energy storage systems has become indisputable, accelerating ...

Canadian company Volt Lithium has developed and pilot-tested a new low-cost lithium extraction method to pull this critical battery metal out of low-concentration brines. Now it plans to turn old oil ...

Lithium, essential for electric vehicle batteries, is currently extracted using costly and polluting methods. A team of researchers proposes an electrochemical alternative, cleaner and more efficient, ...

A research team has developed an innovative membrane that mimics biological ion channels to achieve highly selective lithium ion separation from complex brines. Their study is published in Nature ...

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 ...

You know how EVs and practically anything else that runs on lithium batteries aren't really all that 'green' because producing lithium takes a huge toll on the planet? Scientists at Stanford say ...

Construction of the first large-scale direct lithium extraction plant in the U.S. began last month in California's "Lithium Valley"— igniting potential to transform the Salton Sea area into a ...

Lilac Solutions is raising $150 million from investors including Lowercarbon Capital and T. Rowe Price. The 35-person start-up developed an alternative, and more sustainable, method for extracting ...

Canada’s Summit Nanotech plans to raise $150 million to take its own direct lithium technology to commercial scale as the startup gears to open a testing facility in Santiago, Chile before year-end.

A new report on the impact of lithium mining in South America’s lithium triangle finds the rush to extract lithium in Chile’s Salar de Atacama has had a severe impact on the area’s water supplies.