Purdue Team Attends CMI Annual Meeting
Purdue Team Attends CMI Annual Meeting
| Event Date: | September 5, 2018 |
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The Critical Materials Institute (CMI) celebrated five years of developing, accelerating, and commercializing novel technologies related to rare earth elements and other at risk materials in a meeting that was held on September 5-6, 2018 at Iowa State University.
CMI is an energy innovation hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. In attendance were a wide number of scientists and engineers from across the nation. Purdue attendees were Professors Sutherland, Handwerker, Zhao, Iyer, and graduate students Sidi Deng and Jesús R. Pérez-Cardona.
Sutherland, Deng, and Pérez-Cardona spoke on and advised fellow CMI researchers on Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA). TEA is being used to evaluate CMI technologies and provide guidance on strategies for improving economic competitiveness.