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💊 Cutting-edge fields in biomedicine ・ Exosome-based drug delivery technology: Breaks through traditional therapeutic barriers such as the blood-brain barrier, enabling precise in vivo drug administration to previously inaccessible targets. ・ mRNA personalized cancer vaccines: Activate the patient’s immune system against tumor-specific mutations, significantly reducing postoperative cancer recurrence risk and advancing the clinical implementation of precision oncology. ・ Quantum simulation for drug discovery: Achieves ultra-high-precision modeling of molecular interactions, dramatically improving candidate drug screening efficiency and shortening new drug development timelines. 🔐 Information security and foundational technologies ・ Lattice-based cryptography: Establishes encryption systems resistant to quantum computer attacks; ensures long-term security of digital infrastructure and core data amid rapid advances in quantum computing. ・ Precision fermentation: Leverages engineered microbes to efficiently synthesize specific compounds, opening low-energy, eco-friendly production pathways for food, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals—and reducing reliance on resource-intensive traditional manufacturing. ・ World model technology: Enables AI systems to develop comprehensive understanding of physical environments, greatly enhancing machines’ predictive, planning, and interactive capabilities in real-world scenarios—accelerating the realization of artificial general intelligence. Direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies developed overseas represent the current global frontier in lithium resource development. Multiple mature technical routes have emerged and are entering an accelerated phase of commercial deployment. Mainstream overseas technical routes ・ Adsorption method Led by U.S.-based DuPont, this approach features over 20 proprietary products covering the full DLE process chain, adaptable to both high- and low-temperature brine conditions. Its specialized adsorbents enable highly selective lithium ion enrichment, significantly boosting lithium recovery rates and product purity. This technology has already been deployed across multiple salt lake projects. ・ Membrane separation / electrodialysis method Developed under the EU’s SelectLithium project (led by Imperial College London), this route optimizes high-performance ion-selective membranes and employs electrodialysis to directionally recover lithium from brine. Compared with conventional methods, it is cleaner and more efficient. The project runs from October 2025 to March 2027, backed by €150 million in dedicated EU R&D funding to advance engineering-scale implementation. ・ Mechanochemical hard-rock DLE technology Developed by the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) team at Ames National Laboratory (USA), this includes two core technologies—MELLT and VITELiS—which extract over 95% of lithium from hard-rock ores at room temperature, without acid or water. This drastically cuts processing costs and was shortlisted among key emerging technologies at the 2026 TechConnect Global Innovation Summit. ・ Room-temperature hard-rock DLE technology Developed by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this method uses an ammonium fluoride aqueous solution to dismantle spodumene mineral structures at room temperature—eliminating energy-intensive calcination. Overall production costs are reduced by 50% versus conventional hard-rock lithium extraction, while simultaneously recovering high-value co-products such as alumina and silica. The process generates near-zero waste, and findings have been published in Science. Commercialization is now underway via a spin-off company. Industrial application characteristics ・ Dramatically shortened production cycles: In some South American salt lake projects adopting DLE, the traditional 18–24-month solar evaporation period has been compressed to continuous, days-long production—boosting lithium recovery by 30–50% while substantially reducing land and water consumption.

DuPont to split into three companies

The new DuPont will be a diversified industrial company comprising its Water & Protection business (excluding Water Solutions), the majority of its Industrial Solutions segment—including healthcare-related businesses—as well as its existing retained businesses. In 2023, these businesses generated approximately $6.6 billion in net sales. The Electronics Company will consist primarily of DuPont’s existing semiconductor technologies and interconnect solutions businesses, along with electronics-related product lines from the Industrial Solutions segment. In 2023, this business generated approximately $4.0 billion in sales, serving key end markets including AI chips, digital displays, printed circuit boards, and consumer electronics. The Water Company will comprise DuPont’s current Water Solutions business, which generated approximately $1.5 billion in sales in 2023. It specializes in advanced technologies for reverse osmosis, ion exchange, and ultrafiltration, with applications spanning industrial and municipal water treatment, life sciences, and emerging areas such as direct lithium extraction. “This is an exceptional opportunity to create long-term, sustainable shareholder value by establishing three strong, industry-leading companies,” said Ed Breen, Executive Chairman and CEO of DuPont. “The three-way separation will unlock incremental value for shareholders and customers alike, while creating new opportunities for employees. Each company will gain greater flexibility to pursue its own focused growth strategies—including optimizing its portfolio through mergers and acquisitions.” In addition to the restructuring, DuPont also announced executive leadership changes: effective June 1, current CFO Lori Koch will assume the role of CEO, while current CEO Ed Breen will remain as Executive Chairman.

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DuPont's Direct Lithium Extraction team won the "Sustainability Squad" award at the 2026 Sustainability Awards by the Business Intelligence Group. The honor acknowledges their progress in sustainable lithium extraction technologies.

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