Pure Lithium’s Brine to Battery™ Technology Wins 2025 Green Chemistry Challenge Award

Pure Lithium, a disruptive vertically integrated lithium metal battery technology company, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the 2025 Green Chemistry Challenge Award in the Chemical and Process Design for Circularity category for its Brine to Battery™ technology.

"We are honored to be acknowledged by the American Chemical Society, the nation’s premier organization of chemistry professionals, for our technology which reduces energy consumption and carbon emissions across the battery supply chain,” Pure Lithium Founder and Chief Executive Officer Emilie Bodoin said. “We have demonstrated that our technology is capable of eliminating some of the most energy intensive steps in anode manufacturing.”

Pure Lithium’s vertically integrated Brine to Battery™ technology seamlessly integrates lithium metal extraction and battery anode production, significantly reducing energy consumption and environmental impact associated with shipping materials across several continents. The company’s lithium metal batteries eliminate graphite, which is a main component of a lithium-ion battery. Instead, Pure Lithium extracts lithium metal from lithium brine which is abundant in North America to create a lithium metal anode that completely replaces today's graphite anode.

Pure Lithium’s lithium metal batteries are a step change in energy storage, with double the energy density of today's lithium-ion batteries, and the company has achieved unprecedented cycle life in small pouch cells, upwards of 5,000 cycles. Now the company is shifting from pure research and development to the prototyping phase at its new facilities in Chicago.

“The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards highlight how innovation in chemistry is driving solutions for a healthier, more sustainable world,” said American Chemical Society CEO Albert G. Horvath. “Congratulations to this year’s winners, whose work reflects the creativity and commitment of both academia and industry. Their achievements show how green chemistry continues to push the boundaries of science while making a lasting impact on society and the environment.”

This award follows several other recent successes for Pure Lithium and its technology. Pure Lithium won the R&D Achievement Award and Emilie Bodoin was recognized as an Innovator in Energy at the 2025 Reuters Global Energy Transition Awards. Emilie Bodoin was also recognized as the Trailblazing Woman of the Year at the Fastmarkets Voltas Awards.

Established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1996, the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards recognize chemical technologies that incorporate the principles of green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture, and use. Winning technologies have been responsible for reducing the use or generation of nearly one billion pounds of hazardous chemicals, saving over 20 billion gallons of water, and eliminating nearly eight billion pounds of carbon dioxide equivalents released to the air. 

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.

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