Battery Technical
Plasma Unlocks Battery Materials for Recycling
As we delve deeper into battery science, and the art of recycling spent lithium-ion materials…
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Battery Technical
New Battery Research
Recovering Cobalt and Nickel Selectively
Increasing demand for cobalt and nickel in energy storage and industry generally, hastens the need…
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Tribocatalysis Recycles Battery Materials
‘Tribo’ means rubbing in the Greek language, and so ‘triboelectricity’ refers to static electricity achieved…
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Leaching 99% of Lithium From Used Batteries
Scientists from several academic institutions in China, have succeeded in leaching 99% of lithium from…
Battery Basics
Reasons for Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries
The report in Nature Communications that we link to below, provides hard evidence of the…
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Battery Recycling Using Eutectic Solvents
Battery recycling is a process of dismantling spent cells, and recovering their critical materials. The…
Battery Technical
Cobalt Prices for Lithium-Ion Batteries Fall
Most lithium-ion batteries contain the metal cobalt in their cathodes, which increases their energy density…
Battery Basics
Battery Metal Markets Face Over-Supply
The laws of supply and demand propose three dynamics that govern free markets. These three…
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Cobalt-Free Lithium-Ion Battery on the Cards
Lithium-ion batteries invaded portable, and then energy-storage space, and have mostly seen off other new-comers.…
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Battery Material Mining is Shortsighted
We established a case that battery demand will continue to escalate in our previous post.…