Faraday Institution Highlights Success of 2019 Nature Paper on EV Battery Recycling

The Faraday Institution has published a success story about the 2019 Nature paper "Recycling lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles", of which Gavin is first author. The paper came out of the Institution's ReLiB Project and involved researchers from the University of Birmingham, Newcastle University and the University of Leicester, with collaborators at Argonne National Laboratory in the United States.

It reviews and evaluates approaches to recycling and reusing electric vehicle batteries and sets out areas for future progress. As of July 2026 it is the most cited paper from the Faraday Institution community, and has been referenced in patents and policy documents. A 2025 bibliometric analysis of battery recycling literature identified it as the most cited paper and showed the ReLiB Project and Birmingham to be central in the field's collaboration networks. The paper is available from Nature.