Novel SmCo manufacturing method improves economic competitiveness CMI researchers at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University and Purdue University conducted the research for this highlight
Reconciling diverging views on mineral depletion - a modified cumulative availability curve applied to copper resources CMI researchers at Colorado School of Mines found diverging views on mineral depletion using a modified cumulative availability curve applied to copper resources
Finding optimal conditions for bioleaching lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) cathode materials CMI researchers are finding optimal conditions for bioleaching Lithium Cobalt Oxide (LCO) cathode materials
Contribution to book on gallium oxide and related alloys CMI research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been published in a book chapter summarizing state-of-the-art theoretical understanding of point defects in gallium oxide
Survey of donor dopants reported Characterization of suitable donor dopants in ultrawide bandgap (Alx,Ga1-x)2O3 (AlGO)
Development of permanent magnets using low cost mischmetal CMI research at Ames Laboratory used high-throughput (HiTp) synthesis and rapid characterization to identify permanent magnet alloy compositions with decreased critical material content, and was accepted for publication in ACS Combinatorial Science.
Mines graduate research in biogeochemistry Olivia Salmon earned master of science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Mines, December 2020. Thesis: “Impacts of Rare Earth Elements on Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes”
Chinese policies toward rare earths, 1975-2018 Review of original Chinese documents, along with contemporaneous assessments of global rare earth markets and overall Chinese industrial policies
Optimizing the economic performance of CMI technologies Paper “Applying Design of Experiments to Evaluate Market Opportunity for Bioleaching Rare-Earth Elements from Waste Materials” for CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference