Brine to Battery—Innovation in Lithium Extraction
In this Deep Dive, Shai Albaranes, Orbia’s VP of Innovation, speaks with Mo Alkhadra, Co-Founder and CEO of Lithios, about their electrochemical lithium extraction technology. They explore how Lithios unlocks low-grade brine resources to meet soaring demand, using a water- and energy-efficient process to produce low-cost, high-purity lithium for EVs and clean energy storage.
About our guest speaker
Mo Alkhadra is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lithios, which is developing the only scalable electrochemical lithium capture solution, Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE), to efficiently extract lithium from vast untapped sources. Developed by MIT scientists and engineers with world-class expertise in metal separations, Lithios enables access to lithium at the lowest processing cost to meet demand from the global electric vehicle (EV) and energy markets.
Mo earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT and was subsequently awarded an Activate Fellowship. He obtained bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, where he was awarded the Huppert Memorial Outstanding Senior Award in the Chemical Engineering Program and the Department Award in Chemical Engineering for Excellence in Leadership and Service.
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