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

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

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

Lithium-sulfur batteries have exceptional theoretical capacity and performance in combination with an element in abundant supply. But the intricate reaction mechanism, particularly during discharge, ...

A lithium-air battery generates electricity by allowing lithium ions (Li⁺) to move from the lithium anode through the electrolyte to the porous cathode, where they react with oxygen from the air to ...

The world we live in today runs on batteries. But the lithium ion batteries that dominate the market are expensive and environmentally demanding to extract. The raw materials for lithium ion batteries ...

Researchers at U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new imaging technique that allows them to observe lithium-ion reactions in real time with nanoscale ...

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have quantified lithium intercalation rates across various battery materials and utilized this information to create a novel model explaining ...