Costa Rica's 'urban mine' for planet-friendlier lithium
Costa Rica, a country where open pit mining is banned, has become a leader in the extraction of heavy metals such as lithium—not from the Earth, but old batteries.
Mar 13, 2023
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Costa Rica, a country where open pit mining is banned, has become a leader in the extraction of heavy metals such as lithium—not from the Earth, but old batteries.
Mar 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Anybody who has ever enjoyed fresh crab legs or lobster tails can attest to how difficult it is to get through their tough shells. But instead of just throwing them away, researchers are "upcycling" these shells into porous, ...
Mar 13, 2023
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Innovative battery researchers have cracked the code to creating real-time 3D images of the promising but temperamental lithium metal battery as it cycles. A team from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded ...
Mar 9, 2023
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Rechargeable batteries that use ammonium cations as charge carriers could provide ecofriendly and sustainable substitutes to metal-ion-based batteries, researchers at KAUST show.
Jan 10, 2023
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A joint research team led by Professors Lee Hong-kyung, Lee Yong-min, and Lee Ho-chun of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) has developed a new ...
Dec 15, 2022
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Researchers worldwide are exploring ways to improve the performance of the rechargeable lithium-ion and lithium metal batteries that power everything from phones and laptops to electric vehicles. In an article published in ...
Dec 14, 2022
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A research team has conducted a systematic analysis of thermal safety in lithium-sulfur pouch cells. The team focused their study on the exothermic reactions which leads to the temperature rise of lithium-sulfur batteries ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers around the world are on a mission to relieve a bottleneck in the clean energy revolution: batteries. From electric vehicles to renewable grid-scale energy storage, batteries are at the heart of society's most ...
Dec 5, 2022
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A team of researchers has discovered a new mechanism to stabilize the lithium metal electrode and electrolyte in lithium metal batteries. This new mechanism, which does not depend on the traditional kinetic approach, has ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Despite their popular use today, lithium-ion batteries have the drawbacks of being toxic and expensive, with the added complication of a global supply shortage of the metal. For decades, researchers have tried to look for ...
Oct 27, 2022
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