Enhancing and Diversifying Supply Research Highlights

Solving the arsenic problem to enable US cobaltite mining

CMI researchers at Idaho National Laboratory conducted the research for this highlight

image from scanning electron microscope shows crystalline scorodite formed in the electrochemical process

Sorbents for lithium recovery from sulfate leachates

CMI researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducted the activity for this highlight

Schematics of direct lithium extraction from lithium sulfate-containing leachate solution using an earth-abundant sorbent material followed by the delithiation process.

Coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) determination of Al-Ce alloys via combinatorial thin-film synthesis

CMI researchers at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Eck Industries conducted the activity for this highlight

Schematic of sputtering setup overlayed on actual image of the system in operation.

Steelmaking waste offers potentially ample source of Ga, Ge & In

CMI researchers at Missouri S&T conducted the activity for this highlight

image of American Zinc Products Plant in Mooresboro, North Carolina

Insights from molecular recognition inform rare-earth mineral beneficiation

CMI researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducted the activity for this highlight

images depict three ligands on bastnäsite-[100] with explicit solvation Bottom: Comparison of a ligand’s methyl orientation angle as measured by SFG spectra and predicted by DFT simulation for a studied ligand

Mechanochemical extraction of lithium at low temperature (MELLT) from chemical-grade domestic α-Spodumenes

CMI researchers at the Ames Laboratory conducted the activity for this highlight

Economical new chelator delivers binding selectivity for rare earths

CMI researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Ames Laboratory conducted the activity for this highlight

diagram of X-ray crystal structure of acyclopa complexed to the large lanthanum (La) ion. Hydrogen atoms, counteranions, and solvent molecules are omitted for clarity.

Marshallton licenses game-changing CMI separation technology

CMI researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory conducted the activity for this highlight

Santa Jansone-Popova, left, and Ilja Popovs quantify rare-earth element concentrations in liquid samples using a spectroscopy instrument.

Extraction chromatography resins yield fresh insights into REE separations

CMI researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory conducted the activity for this highlight

Structures of the homoleptic [Dy(DGA3)]3+ complexes optimized in the gas phase showing alkyl-alkyl interactions.

Phosphoric acid sludge a potential source of rare earths

CMI researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute (FIPR Institute) conducted the activity for this highlight

Bench-scale, continuous-flow decanter centrifuge used to continuously recover high-quality phosphoric acid and rare-earths containing solids