Lithium-ion technology is essential in our batteries (smartphones, laptops, bicycles, electric cars) Research is accelerating to develop new types of batteries. Lithium is an ultra-light alkali metal of which China is the main exporter.
We should begin to extract lithium in France in a few years, says Mathieu Morcrette, CNRS researcher and director of the Laboratory of Reactivity and Chemistry of Solids (LRCS) at Amiens (Somme)