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CMI Project 4.2.3 Market and supply chain analysis of critical materials

This project will provide decision-making tools at the system level that ultimately will help mitigate supply chain risks, utilize materials more efficiently, and increase the likelihood of adoptio

Rhonda Jones

CMI Project 4.2.7 Enhancing criticality assessment – from backward-looking to anticipatory perspectives

This project will research understanding the history of materials criticality, and developing ways to reliably predict the future criticality of minerals in the U.S. economy.

CMI Project 4.3.4 Techno-Economic Assessment (TEA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

This project is focused on assisting R&D teams of the Critical Materials Innovation Hub to advance the technology readiness level (TRL) of their technologies via Techno-Economic Assessment (TEA

CMI Project 4.3.6 Ecosystem impacts of critical material recovery and processing

The goal of this research is to evaluate newly developed critical material recovery technologies to avoid producing the next contaminant of emerging concern.

CMI Project 4.3.8 Social acceptance of critical battery mineral developments in the United States

The goal of domestic production of critical minerals faces frequent challenges around community acceptance due to economic, social, and environmental justice concerns.

Chemo-Microbial Conversion of Polyethylene Waste into Silk-Protein

We report the development of a new strain of Pseudomonas bacteria capable of converting depolymerized polyethylene into high value recombinant protein products.

ORNL: Seven ORNL scientists among world’s top 1% most-cited researchers

CMI Team member Oak Ridge National Laboratory story on its scientists selected among the world's most-cited includes CMI Project Lead Sheng Dai.

Nature: Microbial miners take on rare-earth metals

Nature story describes using microbes for rare earth separations, including CMI research with Team members Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Penn State.

INL: Researchers with multiple R-and-D 100 Awards share their secrets

CMI Team member Idaho National Laboratory story about INL researchers who have won multiple R&D 100 Awards includes several based on CMI research