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• Rice University Engineers Develop Rapid Water-Based Method to Recover Critical Lithium-Ion Battery Minerals

  Published: Apr 28, 2026

  Section: Technology

  A research team at Rice University has pioneered a hydrometallurgical recycling process using aqueous amino chlorides to extract valuable metals from spent batteries in mere minute...

• Rice University Plasma Breakthrough Recovers 95 Percent of Strategic Metals and Critical Battery Graphite

  Published: Mar 28, 2026

  Section: Research

  Researchers at Rice University have debuted a microwave-induced plasma technique capable of extracting nearly all critical minerals from spent lithium-ion batteries using mild citr...