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"Scientists have discovered a way to recycle nearly 100 per cent of the
materials within lithium-ion batteries.
The eco-friendly method can help address the urgent need to deal with e-waste
from old smartphones and electric cars, according the the team of Chinese
researchers who came up with it.
The discovery uses tiny micro batteries to break down the lithium, nickel,
cobalt and manganese from a battery, before using an amino acid to extract the
metals.
The use of glycine as the amino acid avoids using harsh chemicals for the
recycling process, as well as the creation of toxic byproducts.
The newly developed system is able to recover 99.99 per cent of the lithium,
96.8 per cent of the nickel, 92.35 per cent of the cobalt and 90.59 per cent of
the manganese from old batteries in just 15 minutes.
The breakthrough came from a collaboration between Central South University in
Changsha, Guizhou Normal University, and the National Engineering Research
Center of Advanced Energy Storage Materials."
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