Lithium batteries power much of our modern engineering, including smartphones, electric vehicles, pacemakers, and industrial aircraft. Unfortunately, the process of extracting lithium from the Earth ...
One of the biggest arguments against the clean energy transition is that mining techniques to power EVs and devices create waste and deplete resources. However, researchers have been working to ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as smart phones and electric car batteries—from ...