Instruments

High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

Inductively Coupled Plasma – Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES) Avio 220 Max Perkin Elmer

Hyphenated STA-FTIR-GCMS system Perkin Elmer

Gas Chromatography coupled Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS) Clarus 590- Clarus SQ8S Perkin Elmer

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) Spectrometer Spectrum Two Perkin Elmer

Simultaneous Thermal Analyzer STA 8000 Perkin Elmer

Detail of Bragg Brentano X-rays Diffractometer

We are a Centre of Technological Transfer and Collaboration for Recycling Technologies (@ Department of Chemistry, UNIPV)

KEY R&D GOALS:
• Profitable recycling by recovering high-value materials
• Processes to optimize yield, productivity, and cost
• Future supplies of critical materials for energy storage

INNOVATION KEY POINTS:
• Sustainable and profitable recycling processes
• Efficient recovery of CRMs
• Electrolyte recovery by supercritical CO₂
• Green chemistry
• Re-use of solvents

THE FINAL GOALS:
• Sustainability in the value chain: materials value for recycling is important
• Reduction and substitution of raw materials
• Reclamation of other valuable materials (graphite and fluorinated products)
• Recycling shorter and closed loop
• Recovery and re-use as secondary raw materials for new devices
• Employment of soft solvo-metallurgic process which led to better results, cost/benefit improvement