This $129,105 National Science Foundation project grant supports a conference on critical materials and clean sustainable energy to be held by the Colorado School of Mines in December 2022. The conference aims to explore challenges to adopting clean energy technologies due to constraints on critical minerals and materials supply chains. It seeks to inform scoping of a potential Materials Genome Initiative grand challenge by identifying opportunities to accelerate clean energy adoption through addressing critical materials issues. The conference will bring together researchers, industry representatives, and end users spanning materials development to foster discussion of transformative ideas. It will summarize questions discussed, key challenges and opportunities identified, and new potentially transformative concepts emerging from interactions between the critical minerals community, data/computation community, advanced manufacturing sector, and sustainability experts. This award advances the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) by strengthening the scientific enterprise through increasing materials knowledge and understanding major national problems related to energy and supply chains.
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