The strategic partnership between QUT and Australian-based battery minerals producing company Lava Blue has won the Industry Engagement Award in the Australian Financial Review Higher Education awards.
The award recognises strategic collaborations between higher education institutions and the private sector that have significant depth and breadth and are genuinely reciprocal, mutually beneficial, and highly valued by both parties.
Professor Sara Couperthwaite, said the Lava Blue Centre for Predictive Research into Speciality Materials (PRiSM) is scaling up processes developed by her team to extract high-purity, valuable minerals from kaolin clay and mining aluminium rich waste streams.
“Our collaboration is establishing ways of converting a wide variety of aluminium-rich sources into high purity alumina (HPA), which is used to make LEDs and separators for lithium-ion batteries,” Professor Couperthwaite said.
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