While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique ...

Lithium-ion batteries today are nearly ubiquitous, powering everything from cell phones to laptops. Small wonder, then, that scientists are continually trying to develop safer and more ...

Lithium-metal batteries (LMBs) are rechargeable batteries that contain an anode (i.e., the electrode through which current flows and a loss of electrons occurs) made of lithium metal. Compared to ...

Chinese battery giant CATL is claiming to have made a breakthrough in lithium metal battery (LMB) technology through quantitative mapping. The company said this takes them into “previously uncharted ...

Korean researchers have ushered in a new era for electric vehicle (EV) battery technology by solving the long-standing dendrite problem in lithium-metal batteries. While conventional lithium-ion ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new metal combination that could transform the future of solid-state batteries. By blending lithium with a soft, surprising element, sodium, the team has ...

Lithium metal batteries promise dramatically higher energy density than today’s lithium-ion systems, yet their widespread use ...

E3 Lithium, a Canadian lithium producer, has announced initial results from the first phase of a joint development agreement with Pure Lithium. The collaboration is focused on producing high-purity ...

Lithium, a key ingredient in the batteries of electric vehicles, has a fast-growing new market, battery energy storage systems.