Lithios is a San Diego-based company developing Accelerated Lithium Electrodeposition technology to extract lithium from brine sources inaccessible to conventional DLE methods.
Lithios, based in San Diego, California, has developed Accelerated Lithium Electrodeposition (ALE) technology using a lithium-absorbing electrode material produced with processes derived from lithium-ion battery manufacturing. The ALE approach targets brine sources with difficult contaminant profiles, including brines with high levels of competing ions, that are not economically accessible using conventional adsorption-based DLE technology. In 2024, Lithios raised $12 million in funding led by Clean Energy Ventures to scale the technology.
Lithios is developing its first full-scale stack at its laboratory in Medford, Massachusetts, targeting lithium production from Arkansas brine in the Smackover Formation. The company states its ALE approach uses 75 to 80 percent less water than other brine processing methods. Lithios joins Fastmarkets Global Lithium, Battery & Critical Materials in Las Vegas in June 2026 as a sponsor, contributing an electrochemical DLE perspective to the industry's leading event.
