The age of the electric car is upon us. Earlier this year, the US automobile giant General Motors announced that it aims to stop selling petrol-powered and diesel models by 2035. Audi, based in ...

Layered lithium cobalt oxide, a key component of lithium-ion batteries, has been synthesized at temperatures as low as 300°C and durations as short as 30 minutes. Lithium ion batteries (LIB) are the ...

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium — these foundational materials are literally what the modern world is built on. Without sand for glass, say goodbye to our fiber optic internet. No copper ...

Layered lithium cobalt oxide, a vital element in lithium-ion batteries, has been successfully synthesized at temperatures as low as 300 °C and within a mere 30-minute timeframe. Reaction pathway of ...

Found everywhere from smartphones to electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries could revolutionize the heavy-duty trucking industry. Their higher energy density (more power per unit space), lighter ...

Lithium Cobalt Oxide (LiCoO 2), also known as Lithium cobaltite, is a fundamental material in developing lithium-ion batteries. These batteries are used mainly as power sources for communication, ...

Many electric vehicles are powered by lithium-ion batteries that rely on cobalt — a scarce, expensive metal with high environmental and social costs. A team of researchers from Japanese and French ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Linnaeus University have developed a more environmentally friendly way of retrieving cobalt from used lithium-ion batteries (ACS Omega, "Highly Efficient Recovery and ...