US Patent Issued to The University of Chicago on March 17 for "Pre-seeding lithium in one-dimensional olivine hosts for lithium extraction" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,108, issued on March 17, was assigned to The University of Chicago (Chicago).

"Pre-seeding lithium in one-dimensional olivine hosts for lithium extraction" was invented by Chong Liu (Chicago) and Gangbin Yan (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for selectively extracting lithium ions from samples containing lithium ions and sodium ions are provided. The methods take advantage of the phase separation of lithium-containing phases and sodium-containing phases in inorganic intercalation compounds having one-dimensional (1D) olivine crystal structures, which are also referred to herein as hosts. Benefitting from this phase sep...