Lithium (from Greek lithos or stone) is a silvery-white alkali metal that is the lightest solid element. Just one atomic step up from Helium, this magic metal seems to be in everything these days.

Lithium-ion batteries allowed EVs to finally ... Graphene is a form of carbon that is one atom thick. It is essentially a single layer of graphite (yes, the stuff in pencils).

But the toxic mineral lithium has become a critical pitfall ... Once hyped as “too cheap to meter,” just three “Peaceful Atom” plants have opened in the US since 1996, all of them ...

Lithium-ion technology dominates batteries at ... Devaraj and others in the field turn instead to a technology called atom probe tomography (APT). APT uses either ultrafast electrical or laser ...