Disruptive new lithium extraction technologies use leaching, solvent extraction, geothermal extraction, and electrolysis. Leading companies include Lithium Australia, POSCO, Simbol, Tenova Bateman, ...

Extraction techniques have evolved considerably, addressing both industrial and environmental challenges inherent in the recovery of high‐value bioactive compounds from natural matrices. Traditional ...

"Hypersaline brine" is industrial waste-water with salt levels that exceed even that of seawater. It's a big, expensive, destructive problem which a team of engineers at Columbia University in New ...

The quickening pace of business caused one of Europe's leading independent testing laboratories to seek an alternative to the standard solvent extraction/acid hydrolysis (Soxhlet) method for testing ...

Ramesh Bhave, pictured in his chemical sciences laboratory at ORNL, has been refining a membrane solvent extraction technique for critical materials for more than a decade. The technology was recently ...

Laboratory testing found that a novel approach reduced the time required for sample preparation from hours to minutes. This article summarizes test methods and results. Questions often arise about the ...