The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, awarded a $875,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the University of Illinois for a project titled "Continuous Redox-Mediated Electrochemical Liquid-Liquid Extraction for Critical Element Recovery." This project will conduct fundamental research into advanced electrochemical techniques for the efficient recovery of critical elements from liquid sources. The project aims to...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $677,554 Project Grant to The Washington University Office of Sponsored Research Services Division under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089). The grant supports research and development of a novel supercritical fluid extraction and enrichment process to directly recover rare earth elements from solid coal-based resources. The project will be conducted at The Washington University's...
This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $206,497.00 to CF Technologies, Inc. to conduct research and development on chromatographic separation of rare earth elements. CF Technologies, a for-profit manufacturer and small disadvantaged business, specializes in CO2 extraction, fractionation, separation and chromatography. Through this one-year grant awarded on July 10, 2023, the company will research and...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $563,319.06 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant, awarded on January 1, 2025, will fund a project titled "LEVERAGING MACROCYCLIC CHELATORS FOR RARE EARTH ELEMENT SEPARATIONS" with a completion date of December 31, 2025. The grant supports fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development), plans to conduct pilot testing to obtain aqueous solutions rich in mixed rare earth elements, critical minerals, and materials such as manganese, cobalt, nickel, and strontium, as well as a lithium-containing raffinate. The total funding amount is $6,390,593, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31,...
TDA Research, Inc. received a $250,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support work on "IONIC LIQUID-BASED ELECTROWINNING FOR REFINING OF RARE EARTH OXIDES/SALTS." The project aims to develop ionic liquid-based electrochemical processes for refining rare earth oxides and salts into purified individual rare earth elements. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program...
This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of a novel "REESPECT" (Rare Earth Element-Selective Protein-Hydrogels to Enable Cation Trapping) platform for efficient and selective extraction and separation of rare earth elements (REEs) from recycling feedstocks. The research, led by the University of Pennsylvania, aims to create hydrogel materials containing engineered protein fibrils with...
This $325,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management supports research under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) to extract, separate, and produce high purity rare earth elements and critical minerals from coal-based and related resources. The University of Utah is the primary awardee and will conduct the technical work from January 2022 through April 2023. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award in the amount of $369,810 will support collaborative research to investigate the potential for recovering rare earth elements (REEs) and yttrium from acid mine drainage remediation systems. The research will examine how various biogeochemical conditions impact the uptake of REEs and yttrium by hydrous manganese oxide minerals found in acid mine drainage. Through a combination of laboratory and field...
This $289,851 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program supports research at the University of Delaware that aims to develop new pathways for the recovery and recycling of rare-earth elements (REEs). The project focuses on investigating the formation and properties of high-temperature REE-sulfate liquids, with the goal of advancing alternative REE extraction and separation technologies that could enable more circular manufacturing...