Lithium could be selectively extracted from "low quality" brines using a surprising mechanism discovered at the University of Michigan. The technology could help make brine lakes rich in magnesium a ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new membrane technology that efficiently separates lithium from water. This could help address ...

The increasing demand for lithium to support electric vehicle production is placing a significant strain on global freshwater resources, especially in already arid regions like the Lithium Triangle. A ...

Measuring water availability for lithium extraction can still be unpredictable, especially in the high-altitude Lithium Triangle in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. Current models can overestimate how ...

Lithium powers our dreams of a cleaner future. It is the hidden pulse inside electric cars gliding down highways, the quiet ...

TUSAQUILLAS, Argentina — Irene Leonor Flores de Callata, 68, treks along a bone-dry riverbed, guiding a herd of llamas and sheep through stretching desert. Flores de Callata’s native Kolla people have ...

The United States is sitting on a volcanic relic that could reshape the global race for electric vehicle batteries and renewable energy storage. Beneath a vast ancient crater in the West, geologists ...

As the world’s appetite for computers, smartphones and other electronic devices grows ever bigger, the other side of the coin — e-waste — is raising alarms. According to a UN report released last year ...

AMES, Iowa – Self-destructing electronic devices could keep military secrets out of enemy hands. Or they could save patients the pain of removing a medical device. Or, they could allow environmental ...