Experts on Rare earths
You may not know their names, but rare earth elements are everywhere: powering your phone, helping your car run, and making renewable energy possible. These small but mighty metals play an outsized role in modern technology. Here’s a quick guide to what they are, why they’re important, and how they fit into the global clean-energy landscape.
Brajendra Mishra
- Kenneth G. Merriam Distinguished Professor, Director, MPI & Donald M. Zwiep Distinguished Fellow Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Mishra focuses on the improvement in resource productivity and environmental stewardship through process and product development of materials using recovery and recycling, introducing advanced alloys and life-extension by corrosion and surfaceThe...
Adam Clayton Powell
- Associate Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Powell focuses his research on validated mathematical modeling of metal process development for clean energy and energy efficiency, including rare earths (rare earth metals, rare earth materials). His research group is developing new projects