Offerman E. Critical Materials. Underlying Causes...2019

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This book covers a new frontier of research in Critical Materials that provides insight in terms of the possible sustainable mitigation strategies, the complexity, broadness and multi-disciplinarity of the subject. By exploring in both "systems view" and "in-depth materials view" in light of the circular economy, this book tackles the problem of sustainable usage of materials that is closely intertwined with the energy issue and climate change. Topics covered include: geopolitics of materials, the energy-materials nexus, definitions of the criticality of materials, circular product design, the development of alternative materials (substitution), sustainable mining and recycling.
General Introduction to Critical Materials
Geopolitics and the Energy — Materials Nexus
The Geopolitics of Materials: How Population Growth, Economic Development and Changing Consumption Patterns Fuel Geopolitics
The Changing Geopolitics of Energy
Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices
Defining Critical Materials
A Historical Perspective of Critical Materials, 1939 to 2006
Defining the Criticality of Materials
Identifying Supply Chain Risks for Critical and Strategic Materials
In Search of an Appropriate Criticality Assessment of Raw Materials in the Dutch Economy
Critical Material Mitigation Strategies
Circular Product Design: Addressing Critical Materials through Desig
Substitution Case Study: Replacing Niobium by Vanadium in Nano-Steels
Strategies towards Carbon Nanomaterials-Based Transparent Electrodes
Sustainability in Mining
Recycling as a Critical Material Mitigation Strategy
How to Get Stuff Back?
Challenges in Advanced Solid Waste Separation
Primary Production and Recycling of Critical Metals
Recovery of Rare Earths from Bauxite Residue (Red Mud)