Critical materials have caught the attention - and the imagination - of the world in the past few years. As the global middle class grows and demand for manufactured goods increases, the supply of industrial materials faces new challenges. We will review the available strategies for dealing with critical materials shortages, and reflect on how these strategies have been applied in the past. We identify a few grand challenges for the research community to address, going forward, and describe some of the progress being made by the Critical Materials Institute in meeting them.

Grand challenges in the stewardship of critical materials

248th National Meeting (2014)

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