Critical Materials Innovation Hub News

ORNL: Owner of U.S. heavy rare earth mine licenses ORNL separation technology

CMI technology developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been licensed and is described in the ORNL story, "Owner of U.S. heavy rare earth mine licenses ORNL separation technology"

image of person in a research laboratory: Syed Islam co-invented a process to recover rare earth elements from scrap magnets. Under a new licensing agreement, Islam and colleague Ramesh Bhave will apply their technology to mined ores. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

INL: Researchers with multiple R-and-D 100 Awards share their secrets

CMI Team member Idaho National Laboratory story about INL researchers who have won multiple R&D 100 Awards includes several based on CMI research

Nature: Microbial miners take on rare-earth metals

Nature story describes using microbes for rare earth separations, including CMI research with Team members Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Penn State.

ORNL: Seven ORNL scientists among world’s top 1% most-cited researchers

CMI Team member Oak Ridge National Laboratory story on its scientists selected among the world's most-cited includes CMI Project Lead Sheng Dai.

CMI Hub project takes key step to process rare earth metals in US

The Critical Materials Innovation Hub (CMI Hub), a US Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the US Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory and supported by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO), reports it has worked with industry to take a key step in how to process rare earth metals in the United States.

A protein mines, sorts rare earths better than humans, paving way for green tech

Penn State research story describes work with CMI on using natural proteins to recover rare earth elements from clay and help separate REEs from each other.

CMI Hub makes key step to process rare earth metals in United States

The Critical Materials Innovation Hub (CMI Hub) worked with industry to take a key step in how to process rare earth metals in the United States. This will help the U.S. supply chain for magnets.

Image of metal cube that is part of a CMI Hub process to refine powder and reduce it to a metal.

Jun Cui and ChaoChao Pan get double win in R&D 100 awards

CMI researchers win R&D 100 Awards

CMI name changes as DOE announces new framework for critical materials

Going forward, the Critical Materials Institute will be known as the Critical Materials Innovation Hub

AI Utilized to Discover Novel Magnetic Materials Sans Critical Elements

Ames National Laboratory researchers with Critical Materials Institute used artificial intelligence to develop novel magnetic materials without critical elements