Center for Advanced Separation Technologies

Meeting America's need for critical minerals

From the smartphone in your hand to solar panels and electric vehicles, critical minerals power the technologies of today and tomorrow. Our researchers are working on innovative, sustainable, and economical ways to meet some of this demand with domestic supplies.

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Center for Advanced Separation Technologies

Who we are

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Our research

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New Approaches to Improve Deinking Flotation to Increase the Availability of High- Quality, Low-Cost Recycle Paper Fibers , article
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Fundamental Studies on the Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal Byproducts , article
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Pilot-Scale Testing of the Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Separation (HHS) Process to Produce Value-Added Products from Waste Coals , article
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Mid-APPalachian Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals (MAPP-CORE) Initiative , article
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Consortium to Assess Northern Appalachia Resource Yield (CANARY) of CORE-CM for Advanced Materials , article

News

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Virginia Tech researchers recycle Appalachian coal waste , article
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Virginia Tech celebrates its inventors , article
The Virginia Tech inventions highlighted span a wide array of technology areas, including those related to vaccine development, cyber solutions, communications and advanced manufacturing technologies, and antimicrobial films that suppress the transmission of deadly diseases.