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October 15, 2020 | Tom Ballard

Company licenses ORNL process to recover metals from lithium-ion batteries

Momentum Technologies Inc., a Dallas, TX-based materials science company that is focused on extracting critical metals from electronic waste, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory process for recovering cobalt and other metals from spent lithium-ion batteries.

As more consumers embrace electric vehicles, developing efficient technologies to capture and reuse critical elements from spent batteries will be important to maintaining adequate supply without dependence on overseas mining and processing of critical materials.

Read more about the technology here.



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