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Critical raw materials from electrolysers back into the cycle

Researchers succeed in recycling functional materials for hydrogen production

13-May-2025 - Hydrogen plays a central role in the energy transition. The gas is mainly produced with the help of electrolysers. This process requires critical raw materials such as platinum group metals, rare earths or nickel as catalysts. Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource ...

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Green nickel for sustainable electrification

Scientists have developed a carbon-free, energy-saving method to extract nickel for batteries, magnets and stainless steel

06-May-2025 - To combat climate change and achieve a climate-neutral industry, carbon emissions must be drastically reduced. A key part of this transition is replacing carbon-based energy carriers with electricity, particularly in transport and industrial applications. However, this shift heavily depends on ...

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Converting CO2 into fuel – with the help of battery waste

Upcycling as a climate game-changer: A nanocatalyst has been produced based on spent batteries and aluminium foil residues, converting CO2 into valuable methane

05-Mar-2025 - Battery waste is a serious environmental problem: it contains substances that pose a threat to both human health and ecosystems. At the same time, however, they also contain valuable materials such as nickel, which we need – for example, for the production of new batteries. Better recycling ...

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Unlocking the Potential of Nickel

New Study Reveals How to use Single Atoms to Turn CO2 into Valuable Chemical Resources

03-Dec-2024 - A study published in Physical Review Letters by the Interface Science Department at the Fritz Haber Institute has unveiled new insights into the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2using nickel-based catalysts. The research, led by Dr. Janis Timoshenko and Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, marks a ...

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Recycling batteries with citric acid

Highly efficient recycling process for NCM lithium-ion batteries

19-Nov-2024 - A simple, highly efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly process could provide a viable pathway for the sustainable recycling of depleted lithium-ion batteries (LIBs): No chemicals beyond citric acid need to be added to leach out and separate over 99 % of the lithium, nickel, cobalt, ...

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Mercedes-Benz opens own recycling factory to close the battery loop

Plant to generate enough recycled materials to produce more than 50,000 new battery modules per year

23-Oct-2024 - Mercedes-Benz opened Europe's first battery recycling plant with an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process making it the first car manufacturer worldwide to close the battery recycling loop with its own in-house facility. The recycling plant in Kuppenheim, southern Germany, creates a ...

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'Made in Germany': Battery recycler cylib to scale strategic critical raw material production for Europe

Battery recycling is critical to Europe’s supply of strategic critical raw materials for resilient battery infrastructure

11-Sep-2024 - Sustainable end-to-end battery recycling firmcylib today breaks ground on its first European industrial plant located at Currenta’s Chempark Dormagen in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. One year after the commissioning of its pilot line in Aachen, cylib is marking the start ...

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Effective new catalyst brings hope for cleaner energy, wastewater treatment, and green chemistry

A catalyst that significantly enhances ammonia conversion could improve wastewater treatment, green chemical and hydrogen production

12-Aug-2024 - A team of scientists have developed an effective catalyst with a remarkable ability to enhance the efficiency of ammonia conversion. The study reveals the catalyst's potential to significantly advance wastewater treatment, green nitrite and nitrate, as well as hydrogen production. Catalysts are ...

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BASF decides against investment in nickel-cobalt refining complex in Indonesia

"Since the inception of the project, the global nickel market has changed significantly"

26-Jun-2024 - BASF announced that the company will not further evaluate a potential investment in a nickel-cobalt refining complex in Weda Bay, Indonesia. In 2020, BASF and Eramet, a global mining and metallurgical group, signed an agreement to jointly assess the potential of such a project. “After a thorough ...

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Researchers propose measures to optimise battery recycling

Eleven mines and 57 recycling plants fewer: economic and ecological potential for savings on material consumption for electromobility in Europe

26-Jun-2024 - The demand for electric vehicles which run on batteries is increasing worldwide. At the same time, resources of primary battery materials – i.e. those obtained from mining activities – are limited. Moreover, mining these resources is often damaging to the environment and involves precarious ...

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