Domestic lithium-ion batteries gather all batteries used in electronic devices, mobile phone, and tooling applications. By 2030, the domestic lithium-ion battery market will increase up to 30%. These lithium-ion batteries contain critical raw materials such as Nickel, Cobalt, lithium. With the new European recycling regulation (need to recover high % of Ni, Co, Cu, Li in 2031) and the emergency to find greener and safer recycling process (avoid thermal treatments currently used), it is today necessary to develop new deactivation process of domestic lithium-ion batteries.

The deactivation process is the 1st step of the recycling process and the aim is to remove all cell energy. It has to address several lithium-ion chemistries, be continuous, safe, controllable and low cost.
We propose a new electrochemical based concept (on going patent). The objective is to develop and understand the electrochemical mechanisms of this new deactivation concept of lithium ion domestic batteries