Critical Minerals and Materials Program

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Vision

Build reliable, resilient, affordable, and secure domestic critical mineral and materials supply chains that support the energy, manufacturing, and transportation economies while promoting safe solutions to meet current and future needs. 

 

Program

Four efforts (diversiy and expand supply, develop alternatives, improve material & manufacturing efficiency, reuse and recycle) for basic science, applied R&D, pilots, demonstrations, and commercial deployment

Learn more about the CMM program at DOE: Building Secure Supply Chains for America's Energy Future.

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Strategy

Four columns labeling pillars above four labeled efforts
  • Broaden and Expand Supply: Identify and secure substantial resources from a wide variety of feedstocks including primary and secondary sources, co-produced materials from existing operations, and international partners.  
  • Develop Alternatives: Produce new materials that have less disruption potential and design manufactured parts and systems that require little to no critical materials to function.
  • Improve Materials and Manufacturing Efficiency: Design for atom economy, reduce waste through efficient use, and improve overall efficiency of mining through manufacturing and recycling to minimize environmental impacts while maximizing yield. 
  • Reuse and Recycle: Remanufacture, refurbish, repair, reuse, recycle, and repurpose all materials that are used in a modern economy to extend the lifetime of materials and/or partially offset the need for virgin material extraction.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports these strategy pillars by enabling activities, cross-cutting functions to enable and enhance research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts across four areas: 

  • Analysis and advanced tools
  • Market assessment and development
  • International engagement and standards
  • Education and workforce development.

Funding Opportunities

Review recent open and closed (under review) funding opportunities related to critical minerals and materials and catch up on awardees from past funding selections.

  • Office/ProgramOpportunity
    ARPA-EMAGNITO
    ARPA-EROCKS
    FECM (FE)Mine of the Future – Proving Ground
    FECM (FE)TRACE
  • Office/ProgramOpportunity
    Office of Science (SC)SC Financial Assistance Program
    WETO (EERE)Improve the Recycling of Wind Energy Technologies
  • Office/ProgramOpportunity
    AMMTO (EERE)Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Material & Process Innovation
    EERE (AMMTO)Critical Materials Accelerator
    EERE (VTO & others)Future of Advanced Batteries (research selections)
    EERE (VTO)BIL: Electric Drive Vehicle Battery Recycling and Second Life Applications (Selections)
    EERE (multiple)Electronics Scrap Recycling Advancement Prize (ESRAP)
    FECMProject Selections for FOA 3105: Critical Material Innovation, Efficiency, and Alternatives
    FECM / NETL (Lab Call)Lab Call: Critical Materials Supply Chain Research Facility (METALLIC)
    FECM/NETLCORE-CM Regional Scale Collaboration
    MESCAdvanced Energy Manufacturing & Recycling (AEMR) Grants – Round 2
    MESCBipartisan Infrastructure Law: Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing and Recycling Selections
    MESCFunding Selections: BIL Battery Recycling, Reprocessing, and Battery Collection Funding Opportunity
    Office of Electricity (OE)$2.25 Million Silicon Carbide (SiC) Packaging Prize
    Office of Science (BES)Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs)
    Office of Science (BES/EPSCoR)Building EPSCoR-State/National Laboratory Partnerships
    Office of Science (SC)Early Career Research Program (ECRP)
    WETO (EERE)Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize

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