Agricultural development, extensive industrialization, and rapid growth of the global
population have inadvertently been accompanied by environmental pollution. Water …

Brine, in the form of seawater, salt lakes and geothermal water, holds massive amounts of
valuable minerals. Among the variety of metallic and non-metallic elements that are …

Current polyamide lithium extraction nanofiltration membranes are susceptible to chlorine
degradation and/or low permeance, two problems that are hard to reconcile. Here we …

The complexity of chemical compounds in lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) results in great
difficulties in the extraction of multiple transition metals, which have similar physicochemical …

Membranes with high ion permeability and selectivity are of considerable interest for
sustainable water treatment, resource extraction and energy storage. Herein, inspired by K+ …

Interests on lithium extraction from the Chinese salt-lake brines have regained momentum
due to the growing demand of lithium for application in electric vehicles. Characterized by a …

Abstract A two‐dimensional (2D) laminar membrane with Li+ selective transport channels is
obtained by stacking MXene nanosheets with the introduction of poly (sodium 4‐styrene …

Extraction and recovery of lithium from reserves play a critical role in the sustainable
development of energy due to the explosive growth of the lithium‐battery market. However …

Lithium is the principal component of high-energy-density batteries and is a critical material
necessary for the economy and security of the United States. Brines from geothermal power …

Selective removal or enrichment of targeted solutes including micropollutants, valuable
elements, and mineral scalants from complex aqueous matrices is both challenging and …