Supporting critical raw material circularity – upcycling graphite from waste LIBs to Zn

Supporting critical raw material circularity – upcycling graphite from waste LIBs to Zn–air batteries

Published:2024 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1463-9262
Container-title:Green Chemistry
language:en
Short-container-title:Green Chem.

Author:

Praats Reio¹,Chernyaev Alexander²,Sainio Jani³^ORCID,Lundström Mari²^ORCID,Kruusenberg Ivar¹,Liivand Kerli¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Akadeemia tee 23, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia

2. Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16200, 00076 Aalto, Finland

3. Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15100, 00076 Aalto, Finland

Abstract

This research introduces an innovative approach to create a bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst by using Li-ion battery graphite waste fraction from hydrometallurgical recycling as a raw material.

Funder

Eesti Teadusagentuur

Business Finland

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Pollution,Environmental Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/GC/D3GC04315K

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