Lithium Extraction from Seawater through Pulsed Electrochemical Intercalation

Liu, Chong; Li, Yanbin; Lin, Dingchang; Hsu, Po-Chun; Liu, Bofei; Yan, Gangbin; Wu, Tong; Cui, Yi; Chu, Steven

doi:10.1016/j.joule.2020.05.017

Title: Lithium Extraction from Seawater through Pulsed Electrochemical Intercalation

Journal Article · Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Joule

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.05.017· OSTI ID:1808205

Liu, Chong; Li, Yanbin; Lin, Dingchang; Hsu, Po-Chun; Liu, Bofei; Yan, Gangbin; Wu, Tong; Cui, Yi; Chu, Steven

It is highly attractive to develop efficient methods to directly extract Li from seawater to secure the supply of Li. However, high concentration of Na in the seawater poses a great challenge in Li extraction. In this paper, we developed pulsed-rest and pulse-rest-reverse pulse-rest electrochemical intercalation methods with TiO₂-coated FePO₄ electrodes for Li extraction. The method can lower the intercalation overpotential and successfully boost the Li selectivity. Moreover, the pulse-rest-reverse pulse-rest method can also promote electrode crystal structure stability during the co-intercalation of Li and Na and prolong the lifetime of the electrode. We demonstrated 10 cycles of successful and stable Li extraction with 1:1 of Li to Na recovery from authentic seawater, which is equivalent to the selectivity of ~1.8 3×10⁴. Also, with lake water of higher initial Li/Na ratio of 1.6×10^-3, we achieved Li extraction with more than 50:1 of Li to Na recovery.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1808205

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1656590; OSTI ID: 1694349

Journal Information:: Joule, Journal Name: Joule Vol. 4 Journal Issue: 7; ISSN 2542-4351

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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