Disruptive new lithium extraction technologies use leaching, solvent extraction, geothermal extraction, and electrolysis. Leading companies include Lithium Australia, POSCO, Simbol, Tenova Bateman, ...

"Hypersaline brine" is industrial waste-water with salt levels that exceed even that of seawater. It's a big, expensive, destructive problem which a team of engineers at Columbia University in New ...

Ramesh Bhave, pictured in his chemical sciences laboratory at ORNL, has been refining a membrane solvent extraction technique for critical materials for more than a decade. The technology was recently ...

Organic chemistry is a scientific area of study that is used to describe the structure, properties, composition, reactions and preparation of all chemical compounds containing the element carbon. Some ...