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 ...

In today’s issue of Science, however, a research team has identified an energy-efficient means of extracting lithium from ...

A breakthrough lithium-extraction method could help solve one of clean energy’s dirtiest problems. Researchers at Columbia ...

How a new extraction process could unlock the world’s lithium A new method for extracting lithium could cut costs and ...

Most gadgets rely on lithium-ion batteries, and scientists have come up with a better way of getting at lithium.

BEIJING--A slump in the price of lithium, a key raw material in electric car batteries, is dragging on China’s mining of the ...

The multi-billion-dollar future of clean energy was unlocked by a trip to the hardware ...

Responding to the national need for lithium-based batteries, Chemical & Materials Engineering Professor Mano Misra and his team this fall began working with industry to extract the metal in an ...

Researchers have developed a new approach that slashes the land and time needed to extract lithium from brine, which could dramatically expand access to the critical mineral. A vital component of the ...

Texas lawmakers proposed a bill to allow private-sector lithium mining companies to work on certain military bases.