Back Cover Image, Volume 5, Number 6, June 2023

Back cover image: It is challenging to recycle millions of tons of spent lithium-ion batteries efficiently and economically, because of the low valuation of commodity metals and materials, such as LiFePO4. In article number 10.1002/cey2.282, Li et al. demonstrate that the surplus energy of lithiated graphite obtained from spent LIBs can be applied to prepare high-value organolithium compounds (such as lithium ethoxide), thereby significantly improving the economic profitability of LIBs recycling.