Medford, MA – Lithios announced today that it has been selected to receive $499,320 in funding from the US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding is part of the Spurring Projects to Advance Energy Research and Knowledge Swiftly (SPARKS) program, which aims to support the development of transformational, potentially high-impact energy technologies.

The SPARKS award will support critical R&D and IP refinements needed to de-risk and accelerate the scaleup of Lithios’s Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE) technology.

“We are grateful for the support of the ARPA-E program, as we continue the important work of refining and scaling our ALE solution,” said Co-founder and CEO Mohammad Alkhadra, PhD. “The technologies that the DOE and the ARPA-E program help to fund are crucial for domestic energy security and manufacturing; we are honored and excited to be part of that legacy.”

Lithios is developing ALE, an innovative new technology that uses electrochemistry to efficiently separate lithium from brines with unprecedented selectivity. By replacing costly chemicals, acids, and bases with tunable and renewable electrons, ALE can achieve dramatic reductions in energy use, carbon emissions, water consumption, and levelized production costs compared to current state-of-the-art evaporation ponds and emerging DLE processes.

Lithios’s ALE technology will allow miners, operators, and the broader battery supply chain to unlock sources of lithium previously considered uneconomic and inaccessible due to difficult contaminant profiles and resource constraints. Unlocking low-grade brines and waste battery resources within the US has the potential to reduce energy imports, lower energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, and improve the resilience of domestic infrastructure for producing, delivering, and storing energy.

“Partnering with ARPA-E is a pivotal moment for Lithios in helping position ALE as the most economical and sustainable lithium recovery process” said Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Martin Z. Bazant, PhD.

For additional information about this award: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/programs/sparks

About Lithios
Lithios is developing the first scalable electrochemical lithium capture solution, Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE), to efficiently extract lithium from vast untapped sources. Developed by MIT scientists and engineers with world-class expertise in metal separations, Lithios enables access to lithium at the lowest processing cost to meet demand from the global EV and energy markets. For more information, visit www.lithios.xyz

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