Lithium is essential to the modern world, but its extraction has always carried a ...

Engineers have developed a new technology that enables the direct extraction of lithium from solid salt mixtures derived from ...

More than half of the world’s lithium comes from minerals. But wringing the critical battery metal from hard-rock ores is ...

Canadian company Volt Lithium has developed and pilot-tested a new low-cost lithium extraction method to pull this critical battery metal out of low-concentration brines. Now it plans to turn old oil ...

To obtain high-quality, purified nucleic acids, scientists can use several different methods, including phenol-chloroform extraction, cesium chloride/ethidium bromide (CsCl/EtBr) gradient ...

A new process enables the extraction of lithium from ore in a simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly way. An MIT spin-off wants to market it.