🔌 In his latest blog, our Founder Allen Cates explains how copper, aluminum, and tin work together to power electrification and modern industry. Each plays a distinct role, and none are interchangeable. https://bit.ly/4rOc9sb #CriticalMaterials #Electrification #Copper #EnergyTransition

"...It’s a nice phone that I’ve found is worth repairing, and using online parts and tutorials, I’ve been able to do a lot of repairs myself over the years.’

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URGENT: $500M DOE funding available for critical materials processing and battery manufacturing.

Letter of Intent due March 27. Applications due April 24.

Webinar March 26 at 1pm ET.

infrastructure-exchange.energy.gov

#CriticalMaterials #battchat #NAATBatt

Tin doesn’t move power, but it makes modern power work.⚡
In his newest blog, Kilo Reserve Founder Allen Cates breaks down why tin is one of the most overlooked yet irreplaceable materials in a digital world. https://bit.ly/3ZUYAvj #Tin #CriticalMaterials #Electrification #Semiconductors #EVs

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
🔖Special Issue Alert 🔖
📘 @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social Separations
♻️🔋 Recovery of Spent Lithium Ion Batteries Using Advanced Separation Methods
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Our new article:
Raw material supplier or strategic actor? Ukraine’s future in the rare earth sector

Can Ukraine move from exporting ore to technological sovereignty?
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
#RareEarths #CriticalMaterials #Ukraine #Geopolitics #TechnologicalSovereignty

Suchikova, Y., & Nazarovets, S. (2026). Raw material supplier or strategic actor? Ukraine’s future in the rare earth sector. Post-Communist Economies, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2026.2634631

Ukraine has rare earth resources and strong science, but lacks processing, tech, and patents. That’s the gap. Now it faces a choice: raw material supplier or strategic actor? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #RareEarths #CriticalMaterials #Geopolitics #Innovation #OpenScience #EnergyTransition

Data centre boom runs up against copper supply constraints Rapid expansion of global data centre capacity is driving demand for copper and other metals faster than new supply can be developed, raising concerns over infrastructure bottlenecks, permitting delay...

Data centre boom runs up against copper supply constraints

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The Race to the Bottom | Art Berman Welcome to the twilight of the Industrial Age. Growth is ending. That was the blunt thesis of a recent essay, and the signals are already here—deindustrialization, grid stress, financial instability, and rising geopolitical conflict. The Honest Sorcerer’s argument is simple: growth depends on ever-faster drawdown of energy and materials as…

The Race to the Bottom | Art Berman https://www.artberman.com/blog/the-race-to-the-bottom/

#energy #CriticalMaterials #Geopolitics

The geopolitical future for chemistry Nature Reviews Chemistry - In an era of global transition, new frontiers in chemistry — from space mining to circular technologies — are poised to reshape global power. This Comment...

Our new Comment explores how future supply chains and chemical innovation may influence cooperation, competition, and geopolitics in the decades ahead.

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Extraction and stripping scheme for leachate-IL systems.

[1/8] @nature.com Des chercheurs publient une étude sur l’extraction durable des terres rares. Leur travail analyse comment un déchet industriel, la cendre volante de charbon, peut devenir une ressource stratégique. #geography #criticalMaterials #resource
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carbon fiber is now a critical material worth reshoring, catch the full video exclusively on collide.io/community #carbonfiber #criticalmaterials #energysupplychain

GENERAL INTEREST: The US DOE will be hosting a virtual event on "Fortifying the Workforce for America’s Mineral Security: A National Dialogue.

Learn more here: https://ow.ly/qkeR50XHB7J
#CriticalMaterials #WorkforceDevelopment #MineralSecurity #DOE #EnergyInnovation

🚀 The U.S. just kicked off the Pax Silica Initiative at the summit, locking down a secure silicon pipeline for AI chips and next‑gen semiconductors. Find out how partner nations are shaping the future of critical materials. #PaxSilicaSummit #SiliconPipeline #CriticalMaterials

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Fantastic 2025 edition of the New Materials for a Better Life! workshop! Great talks and discussion on critical materials for critical environments and critical applications. Thanks to all speakers and attendees!!
#MaterialsScience #CriticalMaterials

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🚨 New paper out!
Our review “The role of geothermal plants in the global energy and materials transition” is now published in Nexus (Cell Press) 🌋
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

#GeothermalEnergy #EnergyTransition #EGS #Decarbonization #CriticalMaterials #EnergyModeling

NBR nonresident fellow Emily de La Bruyère: " #China has leveraged State-led industrial policy, a strategy of #militarycivilfusion ...to dominate the upstream of information and communication technologies–including #criticalmaterials, modules, and components" www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...

Great perspective from scientists on critical mineral supply in washingtonpost.com. We look forward to next week's Scialog® conference which will inspire more basic science projects to help secure a sustainable supply of these materials: bit.ly/3HT5ziS

#KavliNano #CriticalMaterials

Unrecovered byproducts from US mines could meet the country’s demand for dozens of critical materials Huge quantities of metals and other elements are discarded each year in mining waste

Unrecovered byproducts from US mines could meet the country’s demand for dozens of critical materials #Science #EarthSciences #Geochemistry #CriticalMaterials #Sustainability #MiningInnovations

Researchers at #ABPDU in Ning Sun's group are working on new ways to recover critical rare earth elements—essential components in technologies such as magnets and batteries— from the environment.

#RareEarthElements #bioeconomy #manufacturing #CriticalMaterials #BioBSE

European Ministers of Defence - Save Europe, invest in mining! Critical materials are the backbone of modern defence. For Europe's rearmament to succeed, the EU defence ministers must break Beijing's chokehold on these essential resources.

#CriticalMaterials are essential to #Eudefence but China dominates the production. For Europe's rearmament to succeed, EU defence ministers must break Beijing’s chokehold now, warns @joristeer.bsky.social.
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How the EU Is Trying To Secure Its Battery Future - Critical Materials and Supply Risks Meanwhile in Europe · Episode

The EU wants an electric future but there's a BIG problem: who controls the materials for ALL those batteries? 🔋 Let's break down the EU's high-stakes plan to secure its power. THREAD 👇 #EUGreenDeal #Batteries #CriticalMaterials

#CriticalMaterials are the backbone of modern defence but China dominates the production. For Europe's rearmament to succeed, EU defence ministers must break Beijing’s chokehold now, says @joristeer.bsky.social.

Read: www.iss.europa.eu/publications...

Solvay expands rare earths production as Chinese export curbs highlight risks to Europe Belgian company hopes La Rochelle plant will help it meet 30% of European demand by 2030

Nice coverage in the FT of Solvay's shift to using recycled rare earth elements in partnership with portfolio company Cyclic Materials cyclicmaterials.earth.
#REE #recycling #criticalmaterials
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Critical Minerals Bottleneck Solved By Weed (Make That Seaweed) A new US startup aims to harvest critical minerals from seaweed, avoiding the environmental and social impacts of conventional mining.

Mining for critical minerals without digging up the Earth, what a concept.

cleantechnica.com/2025/05/07/c...

#criticalminerals #criticalmaterials #rareearths #supplychains #aquaculture #biobased #bioeconomy #seaweed #algae #phytomining #mining #environment #science #research #esginvesting #esg

The future of renewable energy and tech innovation hinges on a secure supply of critical raw materials like rare earth elements.

This visualization underscores supply risks across key industries like batteries, wind turbines, and photovoltaics.

#Renewables #SDG #CriticalMaterials #CleanEnergy

🔎 GTA Monthly Roundup covers 408 new #trade and industrial policy interventions.

Trends include:

• Defense sector moves like the #EU’s SAFE plan
• #Criticalmaterials controls and processing boosts
• Strategic sector investments in #AI and #semiconductors
• Food security efforts

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Hey my fellow #criticalmaterials #rare-earths #actinides peeps! Don't forget to submit your abstracts to the 30th Rare Earth Research Conference June 15-19 hosted by ANL. This conference is always a wonderful event and a great way for early career scientists to network. See: www.anl.gov/rerc30

IOM3 welcomes announcement of new UK Critical Minerals Strategy At Resourcing Tomorrow, Minister Sarah Jones announced a new Critical Minerals Strategy will be launched next year.

Good to see the UK Government reiterating its commitment to properly addressing #CriticalMaterials #CRM
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How The US Can Solve Its Lithium Supply Problem - CleanTechnica The USGS has surveyed part of the Smackover Formation for a potential role in the domestic lithium supply chain, and it likes what it sees.

The key to solving the lithium supply problem lies somewhere in southwestern Arkansas

#lithium #lithiumsupply #evs #electricvehicles #evbattery #evbatteries #lithiumbattery #batterymaterials #criticalmaterials #automobiles #automotive #supplychain #metals

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