Advances in Recovery, Regeneration, and Valorization of Waste Lithium Batteries
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The crisis of traditional energy and the depletion of non-renewable mineral resources have brought opportunities and challenges to the development of the new energy industry. Against the backdrop of rapid development in the lithium battery industry in various countries around the world, the scientific community has a responsibility to deepen the development of core technologies for lithium battery recycling and prolong the path of sustainable energy development for humanity in the future. At the same time, this is also a necessary path to reduce the cost of the new energy industry chain and improve industrial competitiveness. So we call on all aspiring individuals in the scientific community to brainstorm on the recycling and material regeneration of traditional or next-generation batteries. Making good use of the mobile urban mining industry can not only continuously reduce the production costs of new energy industries, but also reduce environmental pollution caused by waste batteries, allowing the world to maintain sustainable vitality in emerging power energy.
Scientists try to design various technologies and methods from different professional backgrounds to solve the problems in battery recycling and regeneration processes, reduce industry costs, improve recycling efficiency, and reduce environmental pollution.
- Wet metallurgy technology achieves full element recycling and utilization of lithium batteries.
- Plasma, optical, or radiation technologies are used to achieve physical repair of lithium battery materials.
- Fine dismantling technology for waste batteries assisted by AI or embodied robots.
- Assessment of environmental issues caused by the battery recycling industry.
- Battery repair technology.
- New environmentally friendly battery.
- High value-added utilization of by-products from battery recycling.
Dr. Xingchen He
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- battery recycling
- lithium battery materials
- battery repair
- hydrometallurgy
- urban mines
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