World demand for lithium has been continuously increasing for decades. Lithium is nowadays mostly used in batteries for mobile devices and electric vehicles. With the rapid utilization rate of lithium resources and the rapid depletion of solid mineral resources, the development of brine lithium resources has become a hot spot. Many valuable elements, such as Li, Na K, Mg, Sr, B, Rb, Cs, Br and I, have become concentrated in the brines by long-term geological processes. The concentration and fractional crystallization of brine in solar evaporation ponds are necessary processes for the extraction of desirable elements. Therefore, there is a critical need to describe the chemical behaviour of these saline and Li-bearing hypersaline systems in order to provide key to understanding and improving industrial processes. Solution thermodynamics and dynamics in Li-bearing brine systems can supply the fundamental thermodynamics and dynamics data to describe the chemical behaviour of brine and exploit the lithium brine resources.
This Research Topic welcomes manuscripts relating to solution thermodynamics and dynamics in Li-bearing brine systems. We would like to invite colleagues from all over the world to bring new discoveries, new methods, and new theories in the field. Recently, the solution thermodynamics and dynamics in Li-bearing brine systems are reported for various lithium compounds. The thermodynamic properties, solution structure and dynamics for Li in the solution are affected with the temperatures and coexistence ions among other things. Experimental results for complicated Li-bearing brine systems and theoretical mechanism for lithium in the brine systems are also welcome, as well as physical or chemical interpretations of these results. Articles can contain modelling sections providing representations of data or molecular insights into the properties or transformations studied. Last but not least, theoretical papers on chemical thermodynamics and dynamics using molecular theory or modelling are also within scope of this Research Topic. We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Solution thermodynamics in Li-bearing brine systems
• Solution structure and dynamics in Li-bearing brine systems
• Solubility phenomena and phase equilibria in Li-bearing brine systems
• Computational solution chemistry in Li-bearing brine systems
• General solution chemistry and industrial applications of solutions for brine containing lithium
World demand for lithium has been continuously increasing for decades. Lithium is nowadays mostly used in batteries for mobile devices and electric vehicles. With the rapid utilization rate of lithium resources and the rapid depletion of solid mineral resources, the development of brine lithium resources has become a hot spot. Many valuable elements, such as Li, Na K, Mg, Sr, B, Rb, Cs, Br and I, have become concentrated in the brines by long-term geological processes. The concentration and fractional crystallization of brine in solar evaporation ponds are necessary processes for the extraction of desirable elements. Therefore, there is a critical need to describe the chemical behaviour of these saline and Li-bearing hypersaline systems in order to provide key to understanding and improving industrial processes. Solution thermodynamics and dynamics in Li-bearing brine systems can supply the fundamental thermodynamics and dynamics data to describe the chemical behaviour of brine and exploit the lithium brine resources.
This Research Topic welcomes manuscripts relating to solution thermodynamics and dynamics in Li-bearing brine systems. We would like to invite colleagues from all over the world to bring new discoveries, new methods, and new theories in the field. Recently, the solution thermodynamics and dynamics in Li-bearing brine systems are reported for various lithium compounds. The thermodynamic properties, solution structure and dynamics for Li in the solution are affected with the temperatures and coexistence ions among other things. Experimental results for complicated Li-bearing brine systems and theoretical mechanism for lithium in the brine systems are also welcome, as well as physical or chemical interpretations of these results. Articles can contain modelling sections providing representations of data or molecular insights into the properties or transformations studied. Last but not least, theoretical papers on chemical thermodynamics and dynamics using molecular theory or modelling are also within scope of this Research Topic. We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Solution thermodynamics in Li-bearing brine systems
• Solution structure and dynamics in Li-bearing brine systems
• Solubility phenomena and phase equilibria in Li-bearing brine systems
• Computational solution chemistry in Li-bearing brine systems
• General solution chemistry and industrial applications of solutions for brine containing lithium