Rare Earth Metals and Minerals Industries (PDF)

Yellapu V. Murty, Ph. D, FASM: Dr. Murty, a Fellow of ASM and currently the President of MC Technologies LLC., provides materials consulting services. He is also an adjunct research staff member in the University of Virginia's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. Dr. Murty, with about half a century of industrial exposure, has been active in the R&D and manufacturing aspects of engineered materials, and their final applications. His main interests through the years focused on multifunctionality packaging optimum properties such as conductivity (electrical and thermal), corrosion/oxidation, light weight, magnetic, strength and toughness (ambient and harsh high temperatures), superelasticity, superplasticity, shape-memory, and resistance to high velocity penetration/shock waves, to meet final product's functional features. His industry exposure spans across electronics, energy, transportation, and specialty/critical materials sectors. He has worked for fortune 100 companies such as Carpenter Technologies, NGK Insulators, Tyco Electronics, as well as leveraging academia and government laboratories such as MIT, University of Illinois, and Sandia and Oak Ridge National Laboratories where he was instrumental in identifying key materials technologies and transitioning them into successful commercial products. Mary Anne Alvin: Mary Anne Alvin currently serves as the Critical Minerals Processing Program Manager at the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. She previously served as the Rare Earth Element Technology Manager at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Prior to joining NETL, Ms. Alvin was employed at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and at Siemens Westinghouse Power Generation, working in the area of advanced energy systems. As a Fellow Scientist, she was internationally recognized for her contributions in the area of high temperature porous ceramic materials, ceramic matrix composites, intermetallics,