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Blue-green color of solutions reveals presence of cobalt
The blue-green color of solutions reveals the presence of cobalt, taken from spent lithium-ion batteries through an environmentall friendly method developed at Rice University to recover valuable metals from used 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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