A New Way to Recycle Batteries Uses Half the Energy
A new recycling process could provide a way to restore lithium ion battery cathodes to “mint condition.†What’s better, this new process only uses half the energy of conventional recycling methods
By Melissa C. Lott on February 20, 2018
A new recycling process could provide a way to restore lithium-ion battery cathodes to “mint conditionâ€. What’s better, this new process only uses half the energy of conventional recycling methods.
The new process centers on a non-destructive approach to recycling cathode materials. In the recycling methods that are typically used today, cathodes are broken into their separate elements. This new method would preserve the cathode material. According to the University of California, San Diego Professor Zheng Chen, who co-authored a new paper documenting this new approach to recycling batteries:
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