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The speaker is a chemist who is interested in recycling lithium-ion batteries from old devices. He explains the history and principle of these batteries, and then shows his experiments with disassembling, dissolving, and separating the metals from the cathodes. He uses various chemicals and methods to isolate lithium carbonate, but he only gets a small amount of it. He concludes that the current recycling methods are not very efficient or practical, and he hopes that they will improve in the future. He also promotes a data analyst course from an educational platform.
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1. Scientists in South Korea have achieved a nuclear fusion reaction at 100 million°C for 30 seconds in 2022.
2. Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in electric vehicles and devices, but they lose capacity over time and need to be recycled.
3. Lithium-ion batteries contain a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte that allow lithium ions to move between them and generate electricity.
4. The cathode is made of aluminum foil coated with a mixture of transition metal oxides, such as cobalt, nickel, and manganese.
5. The anode is made of copper foil coated with graphite.
6. The electrolyte is usually a fluorine compound of lithium in a solvent called ethylene carbonate.
7. To recycle lithium-ion batteries, the cathode and the anode need to be separated from the electrolyte and the metal casing, and then dissolved in different solutions to isolate the metal compounds.
8. Lithium carbonate can be obtained by adding sodium carbonate to a solution containing lithium sulfate, which is formed by dissolving the cathode in sulfuric acid.
9. The amount of lithium recovered from 10 lithium-ion batteries is about 7.5 grams of lithium carbonate, which is less than expected due to impurities and inefficiencies in the process.
10. Recycling lithium-ion batteries is still a challenging and developing field of science, and many companies prefer to burn them and sell the alloy and slag instead of extracting the metals.