August 21, 2025: News Coverage
Waste from carbon capture helps extract critical minerals
Coupling critical mineral extraction with carbon removal technologies makes both more efficient
May 20, 2025: Research Highlight
Enabling Urban Mining of Critical Minerals from Domestic Electronic Waste
The NETS team has developed an energy- and chemical-efficient method of separating valuable critical minerals from dissolved solutions of rare earth element magnets
May 8, 2025: Research Highlight
Selectively Recovering Manganese from Surface Accessible Nodules
Surface manganese mining from nodules in South Dakota is now possible with a new scalable selective precipitation process.
December 5, 2024: Research Highlight
A Streamlined Process to Extract Magnesium from Seawater
Precipitation with sodium hydroxide in a flow-gel device enables the rapid extraction of magnesium from seawater in a new scalable process.
September 26, 2024: News Coverage
Mining the e-scrap stream
PNNL’s process of recovering some critical metals from e-scrap using a mixed-salt water-based solution is noted as a big step in R&D for e-scrap recycling.
April 23, 2024: News Release
Critical Minerals Recovery from Electronic Waste
A nontoxic separation process recovers critical minerals, such as manganese, magnesium, dysprosium, and neodymium, from electronic scrap waste.
January 24, 2024: Article
Separating Critical Materials from Dissolved Batteries
A simple gel-based system separates metals ions from a model solution of dissolved battery electrodes without the need for specialty chemicals, membranes, or toxic solvents.