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SM3 Team Awards

Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials Team Awards

Goal: to spark advances in the mining, design, manufacture, and disposal of materials needed to achieve a more sustainable and low-carbon energy system.

Team Awards 2024

Nicholas Rolston, Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University 2
Loretta Roberson, Bell Center, Marine Biological Laboratory 2
Julian West, Chemistry, Rice University 2
Seaweed for Critical Element Extraction and Transformation (Sea-CrEET)

Helen Zha, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 3
Loretta Roberson, Bell Center, Marine Biological Laboratory 3
Jaime Barros-Rios, Plant Science and Technology, University of Missouri 1  
Engineering Plants and Algae as Dye-Free Alternatives to Fossil-Based Textiles

Junsoo Kim, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University 1
Grace Han, Chemistry, Brandeis University 1
Lucas Bao, Chemistry, Boston College 1
Synergistic Photomechanical Depolymerization

Nicholas Rolston, Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University 2        
Agnes Thorarinsdottir, Chemistry, University of Rochester 2
Isabel Barton, Mining & Geological Engineering, University of Arizona 2
Electrocatalyst Formation from Extracted Critical Trace Elements in Copper Ores (EFFECT ECO)

Jihye Kim, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines 2
Shuwen Yue, Chemical Engineering, Cornell University 2
Qi (Tony) Dong, Chemistry, Purdue University 2
AI/ML-assisted Separation and Programmable Electrodeposition of Ni and Co

Erika La Plante, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis 2
Matthew Nava, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles 1   
Oscar Nordness, Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University 1      
Water-Free Silicate Activation for Valuable Metal Extraction

Helen Zha, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1
Julie Rorrer, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington 1
Co-Developing Advanced Catalysts and Engineered Microbes to Upcycle Mixed, Low-Value Plastic Waste into High-Value Recombinant Products

Funded by RCSA 1
Funded by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2
Funded by The Kavli Foundation 3