Waste Becomes Recyclable Material

New Process Turns Urine and Ash into Sustainable Raw Materials

09-Jul-2026 - How can waste be put to good use instead of being disposed of? A research team at Saarland University has developed an innovative approach that can convert locally available waste materials—urine and ash—into valuable raw materials. The goal of the new process is to make clever use of these two ...

Are critical raw materials for EVs less critical than previously thought?

A 15-year analysis identifies four innovation leaps that repeatedly reshaped which raw materials the market relies on

29-Apr-2026 - The development of batteries for electric vehicles has progressed much faster than experts and policymakers had anticipated. New research shows that the market is well equipped to cope with both raw material shortages and price increases. This raises questions about which materials are actually ...

High-pressure dispersion makes LFP battery production more sustainable

Wet jet milling saves 42 percent energy in lithium iron phosphate cathode production

20-Mar-2026 - Researchers at Fraunhofer IPA show how different dispersion processes optimize the production of environmentally friendly lithium iron phosphate cathodes. Wet jet milling saves process energy by up to 42 percent - with almost the same battery performance. Lithium-ion batteries are the backbone of ...

Tea polyphenol-powered strategy revives retired LiFePO₄ cathodes

A low-cost, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional metallurgical recycling methods

06-Oct-2025 - Researchers from the Institute of Solid State Physics at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with the Shenzhen International Graduate School of Tsinghua University and Suzhou University of Technology, have successfully developed a natural electron ...

Sustainable recycling of battery raw materials

Analytik Jena participates in EU/Thuringia-funded “ZirKat” project

20-Feb-2025 - Analytik Jena is a partner in the ZirKat research project, which was launched by Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences. The ZirKat project, funded by the EU and the state of Thuringia, is part of a research project to recover raw materials from used lithium iron phosphate batteries (LFP ...

Start-up wants to revolutionise fluorochemical production

Groundbreaking innovation with high appeal for numerous potential customers in the core markets of battery electrolyte salts and agrochemicals

30-Sep-2024 - FluoRok, an Oxford-based start-up, has raised £7.7m to scale-up, manufacture and commercialise novel fluorochemical reagents and battery electrolyte salts. The oversubscribed round was led by BGF alongside Green Generation Fund and included battery specialist Volta Energy Technologies, current ...

LANXESS wins ICIS Innovation Award for LFP battery materials

LANXESS also examines production of iron phosphate as a precursor for LFP

10-Sep-2024 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has developed new high-quality iron oxides for use in lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries and received the ICIS Innovation Award 2024. The award in the category “Best Product Innovation from a Large Company” recognizes LANXESS’ outstanding contribution to ...

Producing chemicals in an environmentally friendly and energy-saving way: More yield through nanopores

New membrane process increases the efficiency of enzymes - reaction rate significantly improved

22-Apr-2024 - Flow-through reactors packed with enzymes can produce certain chemicals in a gentle and careful way. However, their performance has so far been limited. A research team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and RWTH Aachen University has now been able to increase the yield a thousandfold. Using a ...

Al Mada and CNGR agree partnership to produce components for lithium-ion batteries in Morocco

22-Sep-2023 - Africa-wide private investment fund Al Mada and CNGR, producer of active materials for lithium-ion batteries, announced the signing of a partnership agreement to establish a joint venture based in Morocco to manufacture battery components for electric vehicles. Based on the belief that vehicle ...

Pixel-by-pixel analysis yields insights into lithium-ion batteries

In a first, researchers have observed how lithium ions flow through a battery interface, which could help optimize the material’s design

20-Sep-2023 - By mining data from X-ray images, researchers at MIT, Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator, and the Toyota Research Institute have made significant new discoveries about the reactivity of lithium iron phosphate, a material used in batteries for electric cars and in other rechargeable ...