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Lithium-sulphur batteries a sustainable option, research shows Monash University researchers have developed a new lithium-sulphur battery design with a nanoporous polymer-coated lithium foil anode that reduces the amount of lithium required in a single battery. PhD student Declan McNamara, Professor Matthew Hill, and Professor Mainak Majumder of Monash Engineering, with Dr Makhdokht Shaibani of RMIT University, outlined in their recent paper, “A Nanoporous Permselective Polymer Coating for Practical Low N/P Ratio Lithium Metal Batteries”, how applying the nanoporous polymer directly onto the lithium foil anode created a new battery design that used less lithium, had more energy per unit volume, lasted longer and would be half the price of...

Speedy lithium extraction on horizon AN international research team, led by Australia’s Monash university, has pioneered a new lithium filtration technique that could change energy production drastically. The synthetic Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) membrane can filter lithium ions dramatically faster and uses a highly selective technique, promising a 90pc lithium recovery rate. The study has presented its findings in the prestigious Nature Materials journal, illustrating the way in which MOF channels mimic the “ion selectivity” of biological ion channels embedded within a cell membrane. University of Texas McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, Professor Benny Freeman, said that thanks to the international, interdisciplinary and collaborative team involved in this research,  new routes to very selective separation membranes are being discovered. “Based on...