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

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

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

MIT researchers have developed a low-temperature method to extract battery-grade lithium from hard rock using a closed-loop ...

Most gadgets rely on lithium-ion batteries, and scientists have come up with a better way of getting at lithium.

A breakthrough lithium-extraction method could help solve one of clean energy’s dirtiest problems. Researchers at Columbia ...

Scientists in Germany have started developing a mobile extraction plant designed to recover lithium ...

The multi-billion-dollar future of clean energy was unlocked by a trip to the hardware ...

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.

Laid out left to right to illustrate notable steps in the process of lithium battery recycling are: a pair of lithium iron phosphate batteries; a container of black mass powder obtained from shredding ...

Sodium-ion batteries use more abundant raw materials but don’t currently perform as well as those made with lithium.