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As the electric vehicle market booms, the demand for lithium—the mineral required for lithium-ion batteries—has also soared. Global lithium production has more than tripled in the last decade. But ...
A new solvent-based technique could change how lithium is extracted from brines, potentially making the process faster, ...
A team of international researchers discovered a new hydrogel material that can increase water absorption from dry desert air, which could reduce water scarcity in arid regions. With global ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as smart phones and electric car batteries—from ...
Feb. 14 (UPI) --Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a new method to extract hydrogen from seawater without desalination. The advance could help simplify the process ...
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 ...