The Challenge Towards More Sustainable Lithium Ion Batteries: from their Recycling, Recovery and Reuse to the Opportunities Offered by Novel Materials and Cell Design

The scope of the this Research Topic is to collect novel and promising results and ideas devoted to tackle the thorny issue of spent LIBs. The Topic strongly encourages contributions dealing with every step of the processing of spent LIBs, from the assessment of the state of health (SoH) and state of charge (SoC) to the leaching and the recovery of metals, including approaches for the second life of LIBs. Studies involving real matrices (instead of synthetic, home-made samples) and scalable strategies are strongly encouraged, to draw valid routes that can help the many industrial actors that are investing capitals in this field.