The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded $250,000 to Wasatch Ionics LLC through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) Project Grant to support informatics-driven discovery and design of deep eutectic solvents for recycling high-value metals from lithium-ion batteries. The Office of Science program aims to advance scientific understanding to transform the nation's energy future and strengthen national security. Under this award ending in November 2022, Wasatch Ionics will apply computational methods and machine learning to develop new solvent formulations to more efficiently and cost-effectively extract metals like cobalt, nickel, and lithium from spent lithium-ion batteries for reuse. Results of the research funded through this award could enable more sustainable recycling processes for electric vehicle and energy storage technologies.
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