While we make batteries based on many different chemistries, nothing has approached the massive scale at which we can produce ...

Startup Rock Zero is commercializing the research, which could cut costs and carbon emissions from lithium production.

Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a new solar-thermal desalination process that ...

Chilean mining companies Codelco and SQM are budgeting $3 billion to deploy new extraction technologies at their lithium ...

Demand for lithium has surged in recent years as lithium-ion batteries increasingly power more of our world. And yet, even as ...

If all goes as planned, solar, wind and other clean energy technologies will help us abandon carbon emissions for good. But many green power sources perform their best only when nature cooperates, so ...

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are primarily thought of as environmental pollutants, and most research on them focuses on removing them from the environment. Rice researcher ...

A deep dehydration strategy creates swelling-proof 2D membranes with ultra-narrow channels that selectively extract ...

A graphene membrane uses sunlight to separate lithium from magnesium-rich brine, achieving 28-fold enrichment without electricity or pumps. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Beneath the salt flats of Chile and ...

The $870 million project in the northern province of Salta puts Argentina, the world’s No. 4 lithium producer, in the spotlight ahead of projects due online in the country in the coming months from ...

The company’s latest initiative — internally dubbed “Project Powderhound” — marks EnergyX’s third lithium project and its ...