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

Lithium sits at the center of the battery economy. Yet getting it out of rock still looks surprisingly crude. Spodumene, the ...

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

Aquatech, a global leader in critical minerals process technology and industrial water reuse, will supply the largest direct ...

More than half of the world’s lithium comes from minerals. But wringing the critical battery metal from hard-rock ores is ...

A new process enables the extraction of lithium from ore in a simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly way. An MIT spin-off wants to market it.

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

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research team has developed a new method to extract lithium from rock that ...

A couple of weeks ago, an outbreak of hantavirus erupted aboard a cruise ship. Three people died, but the outbreak was kept ...

New research suggesting a improved method for extracting lithium by applying plasma technology has been recently published. On the 31st of January, the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy(KFE) announced ...