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SUBMITTER: Li J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7205902 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Jianlin J Lu Yingqi Y Yang Tairan T Ge Dayang D Wood David L DL Li Zheng Z
iScience 20200421 5
It is critical to develop a low-cost and environmentally friendly system to manufacture and recycle lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) as the demand on LIBs keeps increasing dramatically. Conventional LIB cathodes are manufactured using N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone as the solvent, which is expensive, highly toxic, flammable, and energy intensive to produce and recover. Ideally, a close-loop industrial supply chain should be built, in which the batteries are manufactured, market harvested, and recycled with ...[more]