Wastewater from Hydraulic Fracturing May Be a New Source of Lithium
ThermoFisher Scientific reports that scientists may have discovered an alternative means of obtaining lithium, from an unlikely source.Mining Technologyreports that scientists from the University of Texas at Austin, the Monash University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have discovered how to extract lbutamol online lithium and other minerals from water, including wastewater from hydraulic fracturing.
The technique uses a metal-organic framework, made from a material that has the largest known internal surface area. During ion selectivity, it mimics the filtering function of biological cell membranes to separate metal ions from water.