US metal refining and recycling company Nth Cycle has begun operations in Fairfield, Ohio to produce premium nickel-cobalt mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP), which is an essential component in a number of clean-energy, consumer and military applications. The plant was installed at an existing 20,000-square-foot facility, and can process up to 3,400 tons of scrap materials… Read more »
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Bloomberg introduces new lithium and cobalt indices to be listed on the COMEX
Bloomberg Index Services (BIS) has announced the introduction of new commodity market indices that will track the performance of lithium and cobalt futures contracts. The single-commodity indices will be designated BCOMLM and BCOMLMT for lithium and BCOMCB and BCOMCBT for cobalt. BCOM stands for Bloomberg Commodity Index, a type of broadly-diversified commodities price index published… Read more »
European consortium’s COBRA project develops cobalt-free EV battery system
A European consortium of 18 entities from the automotive, research and technology sectors has developed a new cobalt-free lithium-ion battery system for EVs. After four years of development, the COBRA project, which has a budget of €12 million co-financed by the European Commission, has demonstrated the new system, which incorporates sensors, algorithms and communications for… Read more »
Gelion and Ionblox to develop battery sans nickel, cobalt and graphite
UK-Australian battery manufacturing company Gelion and California-based battery technology company Ionblox have inked a joint development agreement (JDA) to create a battery without nickel, cobalt or graphite. The companies aim to deliver safe, high-energy-density, low-cost lithium silicon sulfur (LiSiS) cells for the global EV, eVTOL and drone markets before moving to stationary energy storage. LiSiS… Read more »
Wildcat will build a US plant to produce nickel-free and cobalt-free cathodes
Battery makers are scrambling to build North American supply chains, and at the same time they’re increasingly turning to chemistries such as lithium iron phosphate (LFP) in order to reduce reliance on problematic elements such as nickel and cobalt. Wildcat Discovery Technologies sees opportunity in these trends, and is now finalizing site negotiations for a… Read more »
Researchers develop cobalt-free lithium-ion battery
A team including University of Tokyo researchers has presented a viable alternative to cobalt metal that it says can outperform current lithium-ion battery (LIB) chemistry. The researchers claim that the new electrodes and electrolyte are cobalt-free, improve battery chemistry, and last for many recharge cycles. The new LIBs can deliver 4.4 V, compared to the… Read more »
Nth Cycle opens nickel and cobalt production facility in US
Nth Cycle, a metals extraction and recycling firm, has inaugurated a 21,000-square-foot refining plant in Fairfield, Ohio to provide a US source of nickel and cobalt chemicals for lithium-ion batteries. Nth Cycle’s electro-extraction technology will convert metal scrap, electronics waste, undeveloped mining resources and refinery waste into nickel and cobalt through its premium Mixed Hydroxide… Read more »
LithTech launches novel raw material extraction technology for lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper and graphite
LithTech, an Australian firm, has announced its 2023 capital raising drive to enhance its magnesium separation process, which increases the brine extraction of essential raw elements, including nickel, lithium, cobalt, copper and natural graphite, used in EV batteries. After lab-scale testing, the Dow Centre at the University of Queensland has provided financial and technical support,… Read more »
Leclanché’s aqueous process reduces cobalt usage in NMCA cells, eliminates toxic solvent
Swiss battery maker Leclanché says it has found a way to reduce the cobalt content in nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminum oxide (NMCA) cathodes from 20% to 5%, by using in a new environmentally friendly water-based process. The company’s G/NMCA cell has a nickel content of around 90%, which it says increases energy density and enables the reduction in… Read more »
Researchers develop cobalt-free cathodes using hydrothermal synthesis
Researchers at the DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a new method for producing cathodes for lithium-ion batteries by relying on hydrothermal synthesis, which eliminates the need to use cobalt, making the process quicker, less wasteful and less toxic. They describe their work in: “Hydrothermal synthesis of Co-free NMA cathodes for high-performance Li-ion… Read more »