Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials

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Experts within the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials are developing new science to address the challenges posed by supply constraints on strategic elements and critical materials. The Centre is working on the development of new recycling processes to enable the recovery of critical materials from end of life products, mining wastes and even road dust. It is also looking at ways to re-use components containing strategic and critical elements, and developing new processing techniques to use these materials more efficiently. An important focus of the centre is also on the substitution of either the technology or the critical elements contained within a wide range of products.

The problems encountered by strategic and critical materials are often driven by economic or political factors and this draws in other expertise from across campus including Economics, Social Sciences and Law.

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University of Birmingham
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