US Patent Issued on Feb. 10 for "Methods and compositions for recovery of lithium from liquid solutions with nanoparticles" (Pennsylvania, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,975, issued on Feb. 10.

"Methods and compositions for recovery of lithium from liquid solutions with nanoparticles" was invented by Robert L. Albright (Southampton, Pa.) and Stanley M. Meyer (Maryville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to a method for recovery of lithium ions from a lithium-ion containing liquid, the method comprising the steps of coating a nanoparticle with a styrene monomer; polymerizing the styrene monomer to form a polystyrene-coated nanoparticle; attaching a dibenzo-12-crown-4-ether to the polystyrene-coated nanoparticle to form a lithium adsorbin...