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Lithium-ion batteries

Keeping white gold green

It is an important challenge to ensure that battery components such as lithium come from a sustainable source. A Li isotope-based approach is now shown to be a potentially useful tool for tracing the origin of processed Li in Li-ion batteries.

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Penniston-Dorland, S. Keeping white gold green. Nat Energy 7, 910–911 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01133-3

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