Lithium (from Greek lithos or stone) is a silvery-white alkali metal that is the lightest solid element. Just one atomic step up from Helium, this magic metal seems to be in everything these days.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the head of one of the biggest electric vehicle makers in the world, once tweeted that “lithium batteries are the new oil.” So important is lithium to the future of ...

Lithium-Ion batteries are unmatched when it ... depending on how much current you’re trying to draw at that voltage. Below a certain voltage, LiIon batteries suffer irreversible changes and ...

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As anyone can tell now, lithium is at the forefront of the green energy transition, primarily driven by the demand for ...

The authors highlight the need for more robust, larger trials to draw conclusions on lithium as an add-on treatment to antipsychotic medications. Limited evidence is available since this review.

It is also one of the world’s largest lithium producers, and the metal generates the majority of the company’s profits. Albemarle produces lithium at its salt brine properties in Chile and in ...

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Every element in the Earth's crust is finite, and some are rarer than others. With lithium-ion batteries a vital enabler of many national decarbonization efforts, the pivotal nature of the element ...

but some of them come with a hidden danger. Lithium-ion batteries can start fires that spread quickly and are difficult to ...

Lithium is one of the most widely-used medications for the treatment of bipolar disorder because it decreases suicidal thoughts - a leading cause of death in those with bipolar - and helps manage ...

Electric vehicles promise to help wean us off of fossil fuels, but they introduce a new problem: how to get enough of the lithium that EV batteries require (SN: 5/7/19). Materials scientist Chong ...