Pure Lithium’s Brine to Battery™ Technology Earns Prestigious 2025 Green Chemistry Challenge Award
Pure Lithium, a pioneering vertically integrated lithium metal battery technology company, is proud to announce that it has been awarded the 2025 Green Chemistry Challenge Award in the Chemical and Process Design for Circularity category. This recognition highlights the groundbreaking potential of the company’s Brine to Battery™ technology, which is transforming the battery supply chain by significantly reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.
“We are deeply honored to be recognized by the American Chemical Society, the nation’s leading organization of chemistry professionals, for our innovative technology,” said Emilie Bodoin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pure Lithium. “Our Brine to Battery™ process eliminates some of the most energy-intensive steps in anode manufacturing, offering a more sustainable path forward for the battery industry.”
A Revolutionary Approach to Lithium Metal Batteries
At the heart of Pure Lithium’s success is its vertically integrated Brine to Battery™ technology, which seamlessly combines lithium metal extraction with battery anode production. This approach not only streamlines the manufacturing process but also minimizes the environmental impact associated with shipping materials across continents. Traditional lithium-ion batteries rely heavily on graphite as a key component of their anodes. However, Pure Lithium’s technology bypasses this need entirely by extracting lithium metal directly from lithium brine, an abundant resource in North America, to create lithium metal anodes.
This innovation marks a significant step forward in energy storage capabilities. Pure Lithium’s lithium metal batteries boast double the energy density of today’s standard lithium-ion batteries, making them ideal for applications ranging from electric vehicles to grid-scale energy storage. Additionally, the company has achieved remarkable progress in extending battery lifespan, demonstrating unprecedented cycle life in small pouch cells, with performance exceeding 5,000 cycles. These advancements position Pure Lithium at the forefront of next-generation battery technology.
From Research to Prototyping: Scaling Innovation
With its recent successes, Pure Lithium is transitioning from pure research and development to the prototyping phase at its new facilities in Chicago. The company’s focus on scaling its technology underscores its commitment to bringing sustainable, high-performance batteries to market. By leveraging abundant domestic resources like lithium brine, Pure Lithium aims to reduce reliance on imported materials and establish a more resilient and environmentally friendly supply chain.
The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1996, celebrate chemical technologies that embrace the principles of green chemistry to design, manufacture, and utilize products in ways that minimize environmental harm. Winning technologies have collectively reduced the use or generation of nearly one billion pounds of hazardous chemicals, saved over 20 billion gallons of water, and eliminated close to eight billion pounds of carbon dioxide equivalents released into the atmosphere.
“The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards highlight how innovation in chemistry is driving solutions for a healthier, more sustainable world,” said Albert G. Horvath, CEO of the American Chemical Society. “Congratulations to this year’s winners, whose work reflects the creativity and dedication of both academia and industry. Their achievements demonstrate how green chemistry continues to push the boundaries of science while delivering lasting benefits to society and the environment.”
Recognition Across the Industry
The 2025 Green Chemistry Challenge Award is just one of several accolades Pure Lithium has received recently. Earlier this year, the company was honored with the R&D Achievement Award, recognizing its contributions to advancing battery technology. Emilie Bodoin, the visionary leader behind Pure Lithium, has also garnered individual recognition, earning the Innovator in Energy award at the 2025 Reuters Global Energy Transition Awards and being named Trailblazing Woman of the Year at the Fastmarkets Voltas Awards.
These achievements underscore the transformative potential of Pure Lithium’s technology and its leadership in driving the global transition to cleaner energy solutions. By addressing critical challenges in the battery supply chain, the company is paving the way for a more sustainable future.
A Step Toward a Circular Economy
Pure Lithium’s Brine to Battery™ technology exemplifies the principles of circularity by creating a closed-loop system that maximizes resource efficiency and minimizes waste. By extracting lithium metal directly from brine and integrating it into battery production, the company reduces the need for energy-intensive processes and transportation. This approach aligns with broader efforts to build a circular economy, where materials are reused and recycled to reduce environmental impact.
As industries worldwide grapple with the urgent need to decarbonize and transition to renewable energy, innovations like Pure Lithium’s Brine to Battery™ technology offer a promising solution. By doubling energy density and extending battery life, the company is helping to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles, renewable energy storage, and other sustainable technologies.
About Pure Lithium
Pure Lithium is a disruptive lithium metal battery technology company led by inventor and lithium expert, CEO Emilie Bodoin. The Company’s novel Brine to Battery™ technology combines metal extraction and anode production, unlocking unconventional sources of lithium. The resulting pure lithium metal anode is the core component of our lithium metal battery, a step change improvement over today’s lithium-ion technology in cell performance, cost, and safety. The battery is free of graphite, cobalt, nickel, and manganese. For more information, visit www.purelithium.io or email news@purelithium.io.
About The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards promote the environmental and economic benefits of developing and using novel green chemistry.
Since the inception of the awards 30 years ago, the American Chemical Society, one of the world’s largest scientific societies, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have worked together to establish and promote the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards and have presented awards to 144 technologies that decrease hazardous chemicals and resources, reduce costs and protect public health. Building on this strong foundation, the American Chemical Society continues to support and celebrate outstanding achievements in green chemistry through these prestigious awards.
