A Russian company has developed a production process for lithium-7 fluoride. Lithium-7 fluoride, to be used in the molten ...

Compañia Minera Maricunga S.a. SANTIAGO, March 26 (Reuters) - Chile's government on Tuesday opened up more than two dozen lithium salt flats to private investment, while reserving the prolific Atacama ...

Re-establishing diplomatic relations between Israel and Bolivia means a potential partnership that portends the possibility of breakthroughs in the storage of renewables.

Scientists from China's Northwestern Polytechnical University have used a lithium-free doping strategy to fabricate a perovskite solar cell based on a metal-free hole transport layer (HTL) made of ...

Cristóbal Olivares for NPR At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz’s house. The desert sun has ...

The Li-ion batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric cars are usually packed in rigid, sealed enclosures that prevent stresses from damaging their components and keep air from ...

Chile's Atacama salt flat is sinking at a rate of 1-2 centimeters per year due to lithium brine extraction, Reuters reported Thursday, citing a study by the University of Chile that used satellite ...

Lithium is one of the oldest drugs in psychiatric medicine, commonly prescribed for bipolar disorder. Now, a study in the August 6 Nature lays out a new case for the potential use of this metal ...

Indigenous communities in Bolivia, home to the country’s largest lithium reserves, are calling on the government to require ...