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 ...

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

In brief: A team from the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering may have cracked the code on a new lithium extraction method that's both more efficient and environmentally ...

Chile, the lithium producer with the richest brine deposits, is looking to expand into new types of extraction including from clay, even as low battery-metal prices squeeze the industry. The ...

During the recent Digging Deeper: The Future of Mining Benzinga virtual event, Alex Wylie, president, CEO, and director of Volt Lithium, detailed the company’s groundbreaking approach. Unlike ...

When people think of chemistry, the image that typically comes to mind is a variety of colored liquids in beakers, flasks, and test tubes in a lab. But in actual practice, chemistry can involve ...

Lithium extraction technologies have evolved significantly in response to the growing demand for this critical element in energy storage and electric vehicle applications. Traditional methods have ...

Lithium is essential for the clean energy transition, but its extraction often involves severe environmental and health consequences. AlkaLi, a startup company, aims to revolutionize lithium ...

Researchers at Penn State have developed an electrochemical method for extracting lithium from ore. The process utilizes an electric current and hydrogen peroxide and could revolutionize lithium ...

Lithium demand is expected to increase significantly in the coming decades as the world turns to greener sources of energy to meet its net-zero goals. But extracting and processing lithium is not an ...