Lithium production has more than tripled in the last decade, with the electric vehicle market causing global demand to soar. However, current lithium production methods are rather inefficient – they ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have optimized a new method for extracting lithium from dilute—and widespread—sources of the metal, including seawater ...

Menachem Elimelech, the Nancy and Clint Carlson Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Photo credit: Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University). In the race to meet the growing global demand for ...

Several diseases, including cancer, can be detected and monitored by analysing biomarkers present in blood plasma. The method of extraction can have a large effect on the purity of the plasma and ...