Daniel Sun, Dana Hernandez
There has been a significant amount of attention, but more importantly a historic investment made in the critical metal space by both public and private sector. The reason is – critical metals are necessary for most advanced energy technologies, defense applications and modern technologies in general. Further, there has been an increased need to build new advanced data centers to support the rise of AI, which require various critical metals that are reliant on foreign imports.
In this symposium, we will put together a group of speakers from both Academia & Industry to present on their work related to the the different aspects of the critical metal space, which include critical metal characterization, separations, purification & novel applications. The objective will be to showcase the work on current Molecular Foundry users as well as speakers from outside the Molecular Foundry with the objective to help educate our community on the up to date relevant work in this space. We strive to have this symposium foster innovation and create new ideas to help impact the Critical Metals sector in general.
Friday, August 21
Symposium Location: Mariposa Room
Symposium Schedule:
9:00 am
Symposia and Workshops Begin
9:00 – 9:30 am
Mining the Infrastructure We Already Have: Critical Metals as Industrial Co-Products
Peter Godart, Found Industries
9:30 – 9:45 am
Harnessing Nuclear Waste in the Recovery of Critical Medical Isotopes
Brooke Green, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
9:45 – 10:00 am
Minimizing costs in iron making: from ancient bloomeries to the laser furnace
Michael Lwin DuMont, Limelight Steel Inc.
10:00 – 10:30 am
RACER: Onsite Electrochemical Copper Extraction for a Domestic Critical Materials Supply Chain
Ranulfo (Randy) Allen, Still Bright
10:30 – 10:55 am
Break
10:55 am
Symposia and Workshops Continue
10:55 – 11:25 am
Translating Ion-Channel Design Principles into Scalable Polyamide Membranes for Ion Recovery
Luis Francisco Villalobos, University of Southern California
11:25 – 11:40 am
Electrochemical Sulfate Valorization for Circular Chemical Manufacturing
Bilen Akuzum, Aepnus Technology Inc.
11:40 – 11:55 am
Battery Waste Upcycling with Ligand-Functionalized Polymer Membranes and Sorbents
Michael Baird, Stanford University
11:55 am – 12:10 pm
Precision separation of critical metals in electronic waste
Grier Gammon, Sunchem
12:10 – 12:25 pm
Impact assessment for critical mineral technology design
Rachel Woods-Robinson, University of Washington