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Lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) are currently the dominant power sources for portable electronics and electric vehicles, both of which have rapidly growing markets. Recycling and re‐use of end‐of‐life LIBs, to reclaim lithium and transition metal resources and eliminate pollution from disposal of waste batteries, have become urgent tasks. Great effort has been made to recycle LIB cathode materials. State‐of‐the‐art approaches include pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, and direct recycling. The pyrometallurgical approach requires high temperature smelting as well as multi-step purification and separation processes; the hydrometallurgical approach requires acid leaching and subsequent complicated precipitation steps to produce precursors for the re-synthesis of new cathode materials. Both approaches have to totally destroy the LIB cathode particles which represent a significant amount of value from their primary manufacturing process. The direct recycling approach combines physical separation to harvest the cathode materials with high-pressure relithiation to regenerate cathode materials, where the high pressure process greatly increases the cost of regeneration.

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Controlling the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic (FM) layers without magnetic fields is an on-going challenge in condensed matter science with multiple technological implications. External stimuli (e.g., light, electric field) and proximity effects (e.g., materials susceptible to external driving forces) are the most used methods to control the magnetic properties. An interesting possibility along these lines is offered by ferromagnets in proximity to materials that undergo metal-insulator (MIT) and structural phase transition (SPT). SPT and MIT are usually driven by temperature but they may also be driven by current, light and pressure.   Thus, if the magnetism of the FM is affected by the proximity to materials that undergo MIT, then tuning the magnetic properties by multiple stimuli may become possible.

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