CMI conducts research around four pillars:
- Enhancing and Diversifying Supply
CMI research in Enhancing and Diversifying Supply includes advancing mineral characterization and beneficiation and innovative separations and recoveries. For more information, link to the page for Enhancing and Diversifying Supply, which includes links to descriptions for CMI projects in this area
- Developing Substitutes
CMI research in Developing Substitutes now is focused on materials discovery and maturation, energy-efficient rare earth metals production, and novel processing. For more information, link to the page for Developing Substitutes, which includes links to descriptions for CMI projects in this area.
- Unlocking Secondary Sources
CMI research in Unlocking Secondary Sources includes next-generation critical materials recycling and unconventional resource valorization. For more information, link to the page for Unlocking Secondary Sources, which includes links to descriptions for CMI projects in this area.
- Crosscutting Research
CMI Crosscutting Research includes enabling science, criticality and supply chain analysis, and and economic, environmental and social analysis. For more information, link to the page for Crosscutting Research, which includes links to descriptions for CMI projects in this area.
CMI researchers are based across the United States at Team member companies, universities and national laboratories link to page with brief descriptions of some of these researchers