US battery technology company Pure Lithium has been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Vehicle Technology Office to scale production of lithium metal anodes from recycled lithium metal, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).

Pure Lithium will work with ANL to recover lithium metal from waste streams. It will demonstrate and scale its technology to use recycled metal to produce pure lithium metal anodes for its lithium metal vanadium oxide batteries.

“While our core technology is combining metal extraction from lithium-bearing brines with anode production, our team is highly skilled in metallurgical processing. The opportunity to extract value from a waste stream utilizing technology that complements our large portfolio of patents was one we could not pass up,” said Emilie Bodoin, Pure Lithium’s founder and CEO.

Source: Pure Lithium