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Science News: Rare earth mining may be key to our renewable energy future. But at what cost?

CMI leaders, researchers and industry partners are featured in several recent articles in Science News. This one of three stories quotes CMI DIrector Tom Lograsso, Ames National Laboratory, CMI Project Lead Santos Jansone-Popova and describes work at CMI Affiliate MP Materials and quotes its Senior Vice President of Communications and Policy Matt Sloustcher.

Science News: Recycling rare earth elements is hard. Science is trying to make it easier

CMI leaders and researchers are featured in several recent articles in Science News. This one of three stories quotes CMI Focus Area Lead for Driving Reuse & Recycling Yoshiko Fujita, Idaho National Laboratory, CMI Focus Area Developing Substitutes Deputy Lead Ikenna Nlebedim at Ames National Laboratory, and CMI Team member TdVib President and CEO Daniel Bina.

Science News: How rare earth elements’ hidden properties make modern technology possible

CMI leaders and researchers are featured in several recent articles in Science News. This one of three stories, and quotes CMI project lead Durga Paudyal, Ames National Laboratory.

Photo of maglev train that uses magnets made from rare earth alloys to levitate train cars without consuming electricity.

iCOUP scientists make plastic more recyclable

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and Cornell University demonstrated improved recyclability of HPDE plastics in newly published work.

CMI in Nature Outlook: Short-circuiting the electronic-waste crisis

Research from the Critical Materials Institute is featured in Nature Outlook: The Circular Economy

Ames Lab scientist models a first: a pinwheel-shaped chiral nanostructure

An Ames Laboratory scientist is a co-author of a paper published in Nature, of a newly discovered tetrahedral shaped chiral nanostructure

Ames Lab science featured in Optics & Photonics News

Recent solar cell discoveries at Ames National Laboratory were featured in Optics & Photonic News

Ames National Laboratory receives $24.5M in funding for key scientific infrastructure

iCOUP Researcher wins 2022 R&D Award

Massimiliano Delferro, deputy director of iCOUP and scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, won a 2022 R&D Award for his project, “Catalytic Upcycling of Plastic Films to High-Performance Lubricants.”

Discovering materials for gas turbine engines through efficient predictive frameworks

Current turbine blade materials have already reached their operational limit. To combat this problem, a team developed a framework capable of predicting the oxidation of high-entropy alloys.