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The accelerating global push to reduce carbon emissions is driving substantial demand for clean energy technologies and the materials on which they depend. Nations are vying for critical minerals, such as lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements (1, 2), to produce electric vehicles, energy storage devices, and other low-carbon technologies (3). Tremendous attention focuses on lithium, which is primarily sourced from either hard rock called spodumene or natural brines—solutions containing lithium and other salts found in continental deposits, for example. However, mining lithium often involves energy-intensive, laborious processes. On pages 1438 and 1444 of this issue, Li et al. (4) and Song et al. (5), respectively, report efficient ways to extract lithium from dilute brine. These advances open up opportunities for sustainable extraction from unexploited dilute brines.
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