While we make batteries based on many different chemistries, nothing has approached the massive scale at which we can produce lithium batteries. That scale makes the economics of lithium-ion batteries ...

The solvent and reagent could be recovered and reused in a closed loop.

Crystal ball: A research team has developed a new way to extract lithium from rock, a change that could reshape battery costs if supply gets tight. The study, published in Science, examines how to ...

Demand for lithium has surged in recent years as lithium-ion batteries power increasingly more of our world. And yet, even as places like the U.S., Europe, and Australia have abundant lithium ...

Lithium sits at the center of the battery economy. Yet getting it out of rock still looks surprisingly crude. Spodumene, the world’s most common lithium-bearing hard rock, is usually blasted with heat ...