This symposium will focus on rare earths and other critical materials. Critical Materials (Rare Metals) are increasingly becoming a critical strategic resource since the global demand for several electronic devices, instruments, defense equipment, magnets, pollution control catalysts and most high-technology. In these days, critical materials become a hot issue due to its core role to the main element as well as its rarity. Since the rarity is determined not only by its amount existent in earth, but also the balance between the demand and supply, the assurance has been propelled in various manners, such as exploration of new ores, recycling, substitution, etc. The symposium will commence with overviews of those minerals considered critical.
- Critical Material Strategies
- Rare Earth Projects, Process Technologies, and Markets
- Recycling
- Environmental Issues
- Separation of REEs – technology, chemical and physical feed specifications
- Optical, photonic, electronic, magnetic and energy applications of REE-based materials
- Dr. Annett Gebert (IFW Dresden, Germany) : Recycling
- Prof. Wei-Sheng Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) : Recycling
- Prof. Thru Sekino (Osaka University, Japan) : New Process
- Soon-Jik Hong (Kongju National University, Korea) : Reuse
Dr. Bum Sung KIM
Korea Institute for Rare Metals, KITECH, Republic of Korea.
Tel 82-32-458-5115, Fax 82-32-850-0304
bskim15@kitech.re.kr
Dr. Ryan OTT
Metals Development, Ames Laboratory (USDOE)
Tel 1-515-294 -3616
Fax 1-515-294-8727
rtott@ameslab.gov
| International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials |
Archives of Metallurgy and Materials |
Applied Surface Science |
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| ISSN: 0263-4368 | ISSN:1733-3490(Print) ISSN:2300-1909(Online) |
ISSN: 0169-4332 |
| SCIE (I.F. 2.155) | SCIE (I.F. 0.571) | SCI (I.F. 3.387) |
