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McQueeney awarded inaugural John and Mary Weaver Professorship

Robert McQueeney, professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University and senior scientist at Ames Laboratory, has been named the inaugural John and Mary Weaver Professor of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Porting a computational chemistry code to exascale architectures

A series aimed at sharing best practices in preparing applications for the supercomputer Aurora

DOE announces over $65 Million in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

2021 Technology Commercialization Fund Awards connect private-sector partners to DOE National Labs

iCOUP scientist on PBS News Hour: Recycling has been an uphill challenge

iCOUP scientist Max Delferro is featured in a PBS News Hour segment about about plastics recycling

Researchers build structured, multi-part nanocrystals with super light-emitting properties

Researchers combined perovskite nanocubes with spherical nanoparticles to form a regular, repeating structure called a superlattice.

NWChemEx: Computational Chemistry Code for the Exascale Era

A team working on biofuel research is rewriting the decades-old NWChem software program for the exascale era.

Old friends find new way of breaking down plastic for recycling

Luzinov and Balema first met more than 20 years ago at Iowa State. While they share a background in chemistry, it wasn’t science that brought them together.

CNBC: New U.S. plan to rival China and end cornering of market in rare earth metals

CNBC story quotes CMI Director Tom Lograsso and mentions CMI partner MP Materials and CMI research at Ames Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory

Ore operations at MP Materials rare earth mine

Argonne innovations and technology to help drive circular economy

DOE Newswise shared the story from Argonne National Laboratory that cites the Critical Materials Institute at Ames Laboratory

Plastics are made of many different types of materials, each with features that determine how long a plastic will last in a specific environment. Argonne is helping scientists develop materials at the start of the manufacturing process that are easily reused and less harmful to the Earth.

Breakthrough research: Wastewater from potato processing plants could be used in the recycling of high-tech devices

Potato News Today published a story about CMI-funded research led by Idaho National Laboratory

Today’s high-tech devices usually contain components made of rare earth elements, a class of metallic elements including neodymium and dysprosium, which is found in everything from cellphones and computers to wind turbines and electric vehicles.