Lithium metal anode technology receives 2025 Green Chemistry Challenge Award

Pure Lithium, a vertically integrated lithium metal battery technology company, 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 says. “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 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,” says 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. 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 more than 20 billion gallons of water, and eliminating nearly eight billion pounds of carbon dioxide equivalents released to the air.