{"id":198304,"date":"2024-10-26T00:34:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T05:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/lithium-supply-crisis-averted-new-technology-doubles-extraction-efficiency"},"modified":"2024-10-26T00:34:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T05:34:22","slug":"lithium-supply-crisis-averted-new-technology-doubles-extraction-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/lithium-supply-crisis-averted-new-technology-doubles-extraction-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Lithium Supply Crisis Averted: New Technology Doubles Extraction Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lithium-supply-crisis-averted-new-technology-doubles-extraction-efficiency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The demand for lithium, essential for powering sustainable technologies, is rising quickly, yet current methods leave up to 75% of the world\u2019s lithium-rich saltwater sources inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p>With some predicting global lithium supply could fall short of demand as early as 2025, the innovative technology \u2013 EDTA-aided loose nanofiltration (EALNF) \u2013 sets a new standard in lithium processing. The technology uniquely extracts both lithium and magnesium simultaneously, unlike traditional methods that treat magnesium salts as waste, making it smarter, faster and more sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>The work, co-led by Dr Zhikao Li, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/monash-university\/\">Monash Suzhou Research Institute<\/a> and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Professor Xiwang Zhang from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-queensland\/\">University of Queensland<\/a>, promises to meet the surging demand for lithium and paves the way for more sustainable and efficient extraction practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demand for lithium, essential for powering sustainable technologies, is rising quickly, yet current methods leave up to 75% of the world\u2019s lithium-rich saltwater sources inaccessible. With some predicting global lithium supply could fall short of demand as early as 2025, the innovative technology \u2013 EDTA-aided loose nanofiltration (EALNF) \u2013 sets a new standard in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}