Summary
This Research Infrastructure Improvement EPSCoR Research Fellows project provides a fellowship to an Assistant Professor and training for a graduate student at New Mexico State University. This work is conducted in collaboration with the Ionic Liquid Science Lead at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Through the fellowship, the principal investigator will study how newly developed solid materials can selectively capture and recover critical materials from industrial, post-consumer, and environmental waste streams. Examples of critical materials include rare earth metals, precious metals, or me
