Small solvent molecules have been found to enable a previously unknown ion-transport mechanism in battery electrolytes, speeding up charging and increasing performance at low temperatures. Most ...

Compañia Minera Maricunga S.a. SANTIAGO, March 26 (Reuters) - Chile's government on Tuesday opened up more than two dozen lithium salt flats to private investment, while reserving the prolific Atacama ...

“Corkran’s systematic evaluations revealed two new processes,” says Boutt, professor of Earth, geographic, and climate sciences at UMass Amherst and the paper’s senior author. AMHERST, Mass. — One of ...

Professor Ji-Sang Yu and Professor Hyun-seung Kim of the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) and Kangwon National University in South Korea recently published a study in Nano-Micro Letters.

Chile's Atacama salt flat is sinking at a rate of 1-2 centimeters per year due to lithium brine extraction, Reuters reported Thursday, citing a study by the University of Chile that used satellite ...

Cristóbal Olivares for NPR At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz’s house. The desert sun has ...

Lithium is one of the oldest drugs in psychiatric medicine, commonly prescribed for bipolar disorder. Now, a study in the August 6 Nature lays out a new case for the potential use of this metal ...

Interest in lithium continues to grow due to its role in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs). As a result, more and more attention is landing on the top lithium-producing ...