Environmental impact of direct lithium extraction from brines

ML Vera, WR Torres, CI Galli, A Chagnes… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Evaporitic technology for lithium mining from brines has been questioned for its intensive
water use, protracted duration and exclusive application to continental brines. In this …

Reconfiguring hard carbons with emerging sodium‐ion batteries: a perspective

Y Chu, J Zhang, Y Zhang, Q Li, Y Jia, X Dong… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hard carbons, an important category of amorphous carbons, are non‐graphitizable and are
widely accepted as the most promising anode materials for emerging sodium‐ion batteries …

The materials science behind sustainable metals and alloys

D Raabe - Chemical reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Production of metals stands for 40% of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions, 10% of the
global energy consumption, 3.2 billion tonnes of minerals mined, and several billion tonnes …

Challenges and prospects of sodium‐ion and potassium‐ion batteries for mass production

K Sada, J Darga, A Manthiram - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The exponential growth of the lithium‐ion (LIB) market is causing a significant disparity
between the supply chain and demand for its resources. In this regard, sodium‐ion and …

An up-to-date review on the design improvement and optimization of the liquid-cooling battery thermal management system for electric vehicles

G Zhao, X Wang, M Negnevitsky, C Li - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
On the current electric vehicle (EV) market, a liquid-cooling battery thermal management
system (BTMS) is an effective and efficient thermal management solution for onboard power …

High‐energy lithium‐ion batteries: recent progress and a promising future in applications

J Xu, X Cai, S Cai, Y Shao, C Hu, S Lu… - Energy & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is of great significance to develop clean and new energy sources with high‐efficient
energy storage technologies, due to the excessive use of fossil energy that has caused …

A materials perspective on direct recycling of lithium‐ion batteries: principles, challenges and opportunities

P Xu, DHS Tan, B Jiao, H Gao, X Yu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As the dominant means of energy storage technology today, the widespread deployment of
lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) would inevitably generate countless spent batteries at their end …

Electric vehicle battery chemistry affects supply chain disruption vulnerabilities

AL Cheng, ERH Fuchs, VJ Karplus… - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
We examine the relationship between electric vehicle battery chemistry and supply chain
disruption vulnerability for four critical minerals: lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese. We …

Organosulfur materials for rechargeable batteries: Structure, mechanism, and application

P Sang, Q Chen, DY Wang, W Guo, Y Fu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Lithium-ion batteries have received significant attention over the last decades due to the
wide application of portable electronics and increasing deployment of electric vehicles. In …

Critical review of life cycle assessment of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles: A lifespan perspective

X Lai, Q Chen, X Tang, Y Zhou, F Gao, Y Guo… - Etransportation, 2022 - Elsevier
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are the ideal energy storage device for electric vehicles, and
their environmental, economic, and resource risks assessment are urgent issues. Therefore …