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Researcher works to create solution for recycling batteries
Rice University graduate student Kimmai Tran and colleagues have developed an environmentally friendly solution to remove valuable cobalt and lithium metals from spent lithium-ion batteries.
Learn more about this research, supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (grant DGE 1450681), in the Rice University news story New 'blue-green' solution for recycling world’s batteries. (Date image taken: 2018; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: May 23, 2019)
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University
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