This article explores Cuba’s status within the context of strategic minerals politics, focusing specifically on cobalt. Cuba has third largest cobalt reserves in world, which is a crucial element lithium-ion batteries (especially those used electric cars). The US, other hand, sorely lacking cobalt, Washington’s list Strategic Raw Minerals and ranked terms its “supply chain risk”. key issues/que...

Water contamination is generally considered to be detrimental to the performance of aprotic lithium-air batteries, whereas this view is challenged by recent contrasting observations. This has provoked a range of discussions on the role of water and its impact on batteries. In this work, a distinct battery chemistry that prevails in water-contaminated aprotic lithium-oxygen batteries is revealed...

In recent years, the rapid development of new energy vehicle industry has led to an increase in production used lithium-ion batteries. The recycling waste batteries is expected alleviate shortage valuable metals battery materials. electrode material adhered collector by a viscous organic binder such as PVDF. A key step separate anode and aluminum foil from lithium obtain materials rich metals. ...

To the average person, lithium-ion technology, at least until the last year or so, was represented by the black-box-like batteries in high-end consumer devices such as laptop computers. Mobile phone batteries use similar chemistry, although in that case the batteries are often lithium-polymer types that are frequently described as if they constitute an entirely different technology. The mystiqu...

The formation of lithium dendrites induces the notorious safety issue and poor cycling life of energy storage devices, such as lithium-sulfur and lithium-air batteries. We propose a surface energy model to describe the complex interface between the lithium anode and electrolyte. A universal strategy of hindering formation of lithium dendrites via tuning surface energy of the relevant thin film ...

Electric vehicles (EVs) are considered as a ground-breaking innovation for making transportation services more sustainable. Electric vehicle batteries (EVBs) are the major technological components of electric vehicles and account for up to one third of the EVs’ initial price. Due to continued cell degradation, EVBs need to be removed from the EVs after some time, but might still be reused in di...

Research on the regeneration of cathode materials spent lithium-ion batteries for resource reclamation and environmental protection is attracting more attention today. However, majority studies recycling (LIBs) placed emphasis only recovering target metals, such as Co, Ni, Li, from materials, or how to recycle LIBs by conventional means. Effective strategies (e.g., pyrometallurgical technologie...

The number of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is steadily increasing in order to meet the ever-growing demand for sustainable energy and a high quality life humankind. At same time, resulting large LIB waste certainly poses safety hazards if it not properly disposed will seriously harm environment due its inherent toxicity use toxic substances. Moreover, consumption many scarce precious metal reso...