The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to design, develop, and evaluate a…
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January 17, 2024
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to design, develop, and evaluate an economical conversion of lithium chloride sourced from geothermal brine to battery-grade lithium hydroxide. Award activities would focus primarily on laboratory research and experimentation of lithium receptors and their efficiency as cation exchange membranes.