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12/11/2025
Lithios begins field operations of first-ever electrochemical lithium extraction technology

Lithios allows developers to unlock lithium from the low-grade brine deposits that make up 90% of the world’s lithium brine resources

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11/14/2025
Lithios nominated for New England Venture Capital Association award

Lithios is nominated for the Emergency Company of the Year in Advanced Systems award by the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA).

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11/14/2025
MIT startup aims to expand America’s lithium production

MIT features Lithios on its homepage with an article on the company’s MIT origins, the core innovation of its Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE) technology, and the need for new technologies like ALE to meet global demand.

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09/08/2025
Lithios Completes Over 1,000 Hours of Continuous Testing of Pilot Lithium Extraction System
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03/25/2025
Lithios on Someone Like You Podcast

CEO Mo Alkhadra shares how Lithios’s breakthrough electrochemical technology is unlocking new lithium resources faster and more cost-effectively than competing options on Unless Brands’ Someone Like You podcast

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03/19/2025
Lithios awarded $249,660 through MassCEC AmplifyMASS program

Grant provides funding to develop first field-deployable pilot system using Lithios’s Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE) technology.

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02/21/2025
Lithios Co-founder & Chief Scientist Martin Bazant elected to National Academy of Engineering

One of the highest distinctions awarded to engineers in academics and industry, membership to the NAE is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of engineering.

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02/13/2025
Lithios on Orbia’s Expand Your Horizons webinar series

A discussion with Shai Albaranes, VP of Innovation at Orbia, on how Lithios is tackling the challenges of low-grade brine resources with a water- and energy-efficient process to produce low-cost, high-purity lithium for energy  storage and EVs.

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12/03/2024
Powering a More Sustainable Future: The 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy & Green Tech

Lithios Co-founder and CEO Mo Alkhadra, PhD has been recognized by Forbes Magazine’s Top 30 Under 30 in Energy and Green Tech.

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11/05/2024
The US is awash in subterranean lithium. This startup wants to get it out.

Featured in the Boston Globe on Lithios’s novel Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE) process and what new domestic sources of Lithium – like those recently discovered in Arkansas’ Smackover region – mean for the industry and US energy independence.

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11/04/2024
The Mathematician Turned Chemical Engineer

Lithios Co-founder and Chief Scientist Martin Bazant shares how his background in physics, mathematics, and chemical engineering led him to co-found Lithios in 2022 with former student Mohammad Alkhadra, CEO.

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10/21/2024
Lithios Selected to receive $499,320 in Federal Funding to Develop Advanced Lithium Extraction Technology

Funding part of Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) SPARKS Program to support innovative energy concepts

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10/16/2024
Lithios Hosts Massachusetts Climatetech Leaders, Launches Pilot and Manufacturing Facility to Scale Lithium Extraction in the Americas

US Department of Energy ARPA-E Deputy Director for Commercialization Dr. Luis Ortiz, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center CEO Emily Reichert, and Clean Energy Ventures Managing Partner Daniel Goldman participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony and facility tour. 

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10/08/2024
Lithios secures $12 million to scale its lithium extraction technology

Writeup of Lithios in Mining.com.

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10/08/2024
Lithios takes inspiration from battery manufacturing to mine lithium from salty water

Mo Alkhadra, co-founder and CEO of Lithios, in conversation with Tech Crunch senior climate reporter Tim De Chant about Lithios’s origins, lithium extraction, and what’s next for Lithios.

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10/08/2024
Lithios Secures $12 Million to Expand Lithium Supply to Meet Global EV and Energy Demand

Lithios’s Advanced Lithium Extraction technology enables the extraction of more than 85% of untapped lithium sources with a tenfold reduction in energy requirements

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06/06/2022
Lithios co-founder joins Activate Boston Fellowship

Lithios’ Co-Founder & CEO Mo Alkhadra is one 39 fellows chosen to the highly competitive national Activate Fellowship program

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