Science Advances
5 October 2022
A green and sustainable strategy toward lithium resources recycling from spent batteries
Jing Xu1, Yang Jin1*, Kai Liu2*, Nawei Lyu1, Zili Zhang1, Bin Sun1, Qianzheng Jin1, Hongfei Lu1, Huajun Tian3, Xin Guo4, Devaraj Shanmukaraj5, Hui Wu6*, Meicheng Li2, Michel Armand5*, Guoxiu Wang4*
1 Research Center of Grid Energy Storage and Battery Application, School of Electrical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
2 State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources, School of New Energy, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China.
3 Key Laboratory of Power Station Energy Transfer Conversion and Systems, Ministry of Education, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China.
4 Centre for Clean Energy Technology, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia.
5 Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
6 State Key Lab of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
10.1126/sciadv.abq7948
A proposed “roll-to-roll” method of lithium recycling. The abundance of used batteries containing lithium offers a key source of the metal for sustainable battery production. However, recycling lithium often causes degradation of quality. Xu et al. propose a sustainable lithium recovery strategy for spent batteries. The system relies on electrical current driven diffusion to separate out usable lithium and can achieve repeated recycling without destroying the metal’s integrity. This method of lithium recycling has low energy consumption and could have high economic and environmental benefits.
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