Startup Rock Zero is commercializing the research, which could cut costs and carbon emissions from lithium production.

Engineers have developed a new technology that enables the direct extraction of lithium from solid salt mixtures derived from ...

Extracting lithium from brine is environmentally unfriendly. A new process extracts lithium more efficiently and is better ...

More than half of the world’s lithium comes from minerals. But wringing the critical battery metal from hard-rock ores is ...

A new process enables the extraction of lithium from ore in a simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly way. An MIT spin-off wants to market it.

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