“…e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / w a s m a n et al., 2008;Sun and Qiu, 2011) and the separation of Co and Li (Joulié et al, 2014;Provazi et al, 2011;Wang et al, 2009). Among these studies, leaching of Co and Li from LiCoO 2 powder using hydrometallurgical techniques had attracted wide attention, besides inorganic acids Jha et al, 2013), organic oxalate (Sun and Qiu, 2012), organic citric acid (Li et al, 2010a), succinic acid , oxalic acid (Zeng et al, 2015), tartaric acid and ascorbic acid (Nayaka et al, 2016) were used as leaching agents with satisfactory achievements.…”