Lithium News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new campaign that raises awareness for the dangers of lithium-ion batteries. Many consumer products use lithium-ion batteries including e-bikes, e-scooters, hoverboards, smartphones, laptops, toys, and power tools. In New York City alone, there were over 250 fires, 130 injuries, and 18 fatalities in 2023. More fires […]

Over the past decades, engineers and chemists have been working to develop increasingly advanced battery technologies that could help to meet the rising demands of the electronics industry. This has led to the emergence of new types of batteries, including all-solid-state batteries. All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) are battery cells that include a solid electrolyte situated between […]

A team led by Prof. Wu Zhongshuai has developed novel 2D atomically thin (001)-oriented single-crystalline LiCoO2 nanosheets with longer Li+ intercalation distance and (001) planes dominated surface for high-performance battery-supercapacitor hybrid devices. This study was published in ACS Energy Letters. Shorter Li+ intercalation distance or lower intercalation energy barrier enables fast diffusion in Li+ intercalation process. However, […]

Scientists at the University of Córdoba in Spain have come up with a way of incorporating hemoglobin – the key component of red blood cells – into a battery, creating a prototype that kept working for between 20 and 30 days. Zinc-air batteries are one of the most sustainable alternatives we have to the ubiquitous […]

A new material that could dramatically reduce the amount of lithium used in batteries has been identified by artificial intelligence (AI). Discoveries like this would have taken years in times gone by, but sky-rocketing computer power now means they can be found in days. The new material was recently sniffed out during a joint venture […]

It has been only 13 years since the first mainstream electric vehicle – the Nissan Leaf – arrived in America. In that relatively short time, the Leaf has been joined by more than forty other battery-electric vehicles, and last year, almost 1.2 million electric vehicles were sold in America. The electric vehicle is still in […]

Slowing growth in electric vehicle sales, including in the top EV market, China, and a market oversupply in battery metals sent lithium prices crashing by 80% in the past year, prompting lithium miners to pause and scale back expansion projects. China’s EV sales continued to grow last year but fell short of expectations. On the […]

A clean grid will need a lot of batteries to balance out the ups and downs of solar and wind power. Today, those batteries tend to come in two forms. The first is utility-scale battery farms that take up acres of land and cost up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The second is lots […]

With over 2,780 fishing ports and 993 commercial and industrial ports, Japan faces the challenge of safeguarding these important coastal assets from the destructive forces of tsunamis. A promising solution lies in the form of a movable barrier system, where gates rising from the seafloor act as barriers, protecting ports against tsunamis, storm surges and […]

Researchers have now evaluated a carbon-based cathode material that is abundant on Earth and could replace cobalt and other hazardous and scarce metals without compromising the performance of lithium-ion batteries, as reported in ACS Central Science. Lithium-ion batteries power everything these days, including electric cars, laptops, and cell phones. One of the obstacles to achieving […]