LiSea

Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly being used in many electronic products and electric vehicles. However, lithium is currently extracted almost exclusively from rural resources, which will not be able to meet demand on their own in the medium term. Due to the significantly higher marine deposits, this source must also be tapped in the future. However, there are no commercial approaches to this yet. A new concept for extracting lithium from seawater is to be tested for the first time in the LiSea project.
The LiSea project deals with the extraction of lithium from seawater. The project idea combines lithium extraction from seawater with a photoelectrochemical approach that directly utilises sunlight as the sole energy source. The aim of this project is to build a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of this concept and prepare it for technological exploitation.