Critical Minerals and Materials Accelerator
Funds industry-led critical materials processing projects through DOE accelerator grants.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the Critical Minerals and Materials Accelerator as a Notice of Funding Opportunity led by the Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation, the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office and the Office of Geothermal. The program is a funding opportunity for industry-led partnerships that prototype and pilot critical materials processing te…
Prototype and pilot work for critical materials processing, direct lithium extraction, geothermal brines and related separation or processing technologies.
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