Critical Materials Institute News

A well-known iron-based magnet is also a potential quantum information material

Scientists pursuing better performance in an iron-based magnet also discovered wide-gap semiconducting behavior and a quantum state useful for quantum information processing—all in a single low-cost material.

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.