The Critical Materials Institute has created unique facilities that are available for additional research and collaboration. These include the following. There are hotlinks for some of the infrastructure and equipment listed. Those links provide information about the unique facility, where it was developed within CMI and who to contact for more information.
- High-Throughput Capabilities at Ames Laboratory
- Pilot-Scale Separations Test Bed Facility
- Filtration Test Facility
- Bulk Combinatoric Materials Synthesis Facility
- Rapid Analysis of Combinatoric Sample Arrays
- Ferromagnetic Materials Characterization Facility
- Thermal Analysis in High Magnetic Fields
- Improved criticality assessment capacity
- Thin-film combinatoric library production facility
- Electrophoretic deposition capability
- Toxicology test capability
- Rapid magnetic property assessment
- Rapid thermodynamic property assessment
- Micro-x-ray fluorescence analysis capability
- Metal reduction capabilities
- Robotic high-throughput catalyst development system
Also, CMI supports research at other facilities that is used in a unique way. This includes a research project that was featured on the cover of Nanotechnology: A high-throughput investigation of Fe–Cr–Al as a novel high-temperature coating for nuclear cladding materials 