Post by Sandia National Laboratories

Battery life 🔋 Instead of letting old lithium-ion batteries pile up as waste, Sandia researchers have developed a microwave-based process to recover and remake their cathodes, potentially turning spent batteries into a new domestic source of critical materials. “We’re about to have an abundance of old EV batteries that are either going to go to the landfill or that we can mine to develop a domestic supply,” said Clare Davis-Wheeler Chin, a Sandia nanomaterials chemist and an inventor of the method. Read more about the microwave method: https://bit.ly/4ozdeUf