CMI researchers from Colorado School of Mines conducted the activity for this highlight
Innovation
A team of 11 international researchers – led by a member of CMI’s Industry Council and including the CMI deputy director and a former CMI researcher – identify and discuss three grand challenges that represent frontier areas for future research, published as a Perspective in the journal Joule.
Achievement
These frontier areas are: (1) extending visibility downstream to value-added materials beyond elemental forms, (2) quantifying the risks associated with market dynamics, and (3) developing tools to inform policy interventions.
Significance and Impact
Emerging digital capabilities have the potential to play a significant role in addressing long-standing limitations in data quality and access to unlock progress on these challenges. Progress in these areas can equip decision-makers across industry, government, and finance with tools to understand the complexity and uncertainty introduced by these real-world challenges.
Hub Goal Addressed
Anticipating criticality.