Watercycle Technologies Ltd, a UK a deep tech company focused on developing sustainable mineral extraction and water treatment systems, has, for the first time, recovered commercial grade lithium carbonate and near 100% pure graphite from Black Mass, a solid black powder containing a complex mixture of metals and impurities recovered from the recycling of end-of-life Lithium-ion batteries.
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless have been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a way of "snapping molecules together.''