Black mass is the powdered material resulting from shredding end-of-life lithium-ion vehicle batteries. For effective ...

Lithium. While it’s not quite “the Spice” of Dune, the silvery, reactive metal is an extraordinarily valuable means for ...

A hidden layer may unlock long-lasting solid-state batteries, boosting cycle life and stability after thousands of charges.

Highly reactive organometallic reagents, like organolithiums (molecules with a carbon–lithium bond) are essential reagents in organic synthesis because of their applications from polymer synthesis to ...

A lungful of hydrogen sulfide nearly killed John Burba a few months into his first job in the West Texas oil patch. He’d grown up in the region, where his dad worked for Gulf Oil as a drilling ...

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 ...

A recent study from Harvard Medical School asks whether the element lithium might be a key factor in whether someone develops Alzheimer’s disease. Led by Dr. Bruce Yankner, professor of genetics and ...

Solid electrolytes are neither volatile nor flammable, unlike the liquid electrolytes used in conventional lithium-ion batteries. Discovery of a new lithium-air battery that can store much more energy ...

There's chlorine in your drinking water, America. Or maybe there's a different chlorine compound called chloramine. This isn't meant to alarm you, though of course it's alarming to many. An entire ...

Please find my comments below on a recent C&EN article “Massive Potential Lithium Source Found in Pennsylvania.” To better understand the economics and environmental sustainability, we need more field ...

Lithium prices have plummeted more than 80% from their 2022 highs, leading to a selloff in lithium mining stocks. Analysts appear skeptical about any near-term revival in lithium demand amid the ...