Witness the explosive reaction of lithium batteries in water.

The battery built by his team endured 500 complete charge cycles—about as many as the batteries in most smartphones are ...

A common lithium salt has revealed new possibilities for manufacturing cheaper, longer-lasting battery materials.

Multiple lithium-ion batteries exploded in Portland State University’s Engineering Building Tuesday morning, forcing more ...

Mecklenburg County Solid Waste is urging residents and businesses to not throw away lithium-ion batteries after three fires ...

A team of chemical and biomolecular engineers, physicists and battery specialists affiliated with several institutions in the ...

Lithium production, crucial for the clean energy transition, faces significant challenges due to its high freshwater ...

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

If it did come into contact with the air, it would react very quickly. When added to a bowl of water, lithium fizzes quickly as hydrogen gas is given off. If a piece of less reactive copper was ...

Lithium, whose silvery-white colour tarnishes on oxidation when exposed to air, is the most electropositive metal (−3.04 V versus a standard hydrogen electode), the lightest (M = 6.94 g mol −1 ...

Lithium tends to occur in layers of volcanic ash, but it reacts quickly with water. When rain or snowmelt moves through the ash layers, lithium leaches into the groundwater, moving downhill until ...