Ames Lab, CMI technologies score two R&D 100 Awards

Ames National Laboratory and the Critical Materials Innovation Hub (CMI) have won two 2024 R&D 100 awards. 

Sponsored by R&D World magazine, this international science and innovation competition recognizes newR&D 100 winner logo commercial products, technologies, and materials for their technological significance that are available for sale or license.

One of the winning technologies, developed at Ames National Laboratory, is a battery recycling process that recovers lithium, graphite, cathode materials and more from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. The water-based process is simple, efficient, and safe, and does not use any acids, reducing toxic impacts on the environment. The process also produces green hydrogen, a clean energy source, as a co-product. This research was supported by Ames National Laboratory and Iowa State University. 

In addition, a CMI-funded innovation developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was awarded. Direct lithium extraction sorbents technology presents a more efficient way to extract lithium from waste liquids leached from mining sites, oil fields and used batteries. Read more about that technology here

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