Critical Materials Innovation Hub News

Game-changing rare-earth elements separation technology licensed to Marshallton

CMI Team member Marshallton Research Laboratories has licensed a new technology for rare earths separation that was developed by CMI researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory.

Santa Jansone-Popova, left, and Ilja Popovs quantify rare-earth element concentrations in liquid samples using a spectroscopy instrument. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Two CMI technologies named 2021 R and D 100 Award winners

Two technologies developed by the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) won 2021 R&D 100 Awards in the Mechanical Devices/Materials category. R&D World announced the top 100 scientific innovations of the year, as selected by independent panel of more than 50 judges representing R&D leaders in a variety of fields.

Two CMI technologies named 2021 R&D 100 Award winners

Two CMI technologies named 2021 R&D100 Award winners

Two technologies developed by the Critical Materials Institute won 2021 R&D 100 Awards

INL innovator wins Idaho Innovation award

Prabhat Tripathy named Idaho Innovator of Year

Prabhat Tripathy, Idaho National Laboratory

Idaho National Laboratory wins four R&D 100 Awards

Idaho National Laboratory wins four R&D 100 Awards, including one developed by CMI researchers at INL for RE-Metal

CMI research developed at Idaho National Laboratory won a 2021 R&D 100 Award

Tough magnet tech scores an R&D100 award for Critical Materials Institute at Ames Laboratory

A tougher, less brittle samarium-cobalt magnet produced by researchers at the Critical Materials Institute has won a 2021 R&D 100 award.

Phys.org: New, environmentally friendly method to extract and separate rare earth elements

CMI researchers at Penn State and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory identified a new method to improve extraction and separation of rare earth elements from unconventional sources. The method could eventually be scaled up to help develop a domestic supply of rare earth metals from industrial waste and electronics due to be recycled.

The new method relies on a protein called lanmodulin (LanM) that first binds to all the rare earth elements in the source. Then other metals are drained and removed. Even when a sample has very low amounts of the rare earth elements, this new procedure successfully extracts and separates heavy rare earth elements with high purity.

Penn State News: New, environmentally friendly method to extract and separate rare earth elements

A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements from unconventional sources, including industrial waste, such as the mine tailings pictured here, and electronic waste.

Mining News North reports on solving the critical cobalt conundrum

The Mining News North story "Solving the critical cobalt conundrum" describes the CMI project with First Cobalt and Colorado School of Mines, "Physio-chemical Beneficiation of Cobalt-bearing Iron Creek Ores"