...researchers will be developing entirely new recycling methods based on laboratory-scale high-temperature electrolysis”, explains SINTEF researcher Ana Maria Martinez. The project has received funding from the EU’s innovation and research programme Horizon 2020 (under GA no. 730224), and involves a total of...
...primary metals sourced from these countries may be low, but the real price often has to be paid by the local environment and its inhabitants”, says Ana Maria Martinez, who is a Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF. “Issues surrounding employment conditions and the environment are good enough reasons to focus...
Ana Maria Martinez, senior researcher at SINTEF Industry, leads one of the projects attempting to find good European recycling solutions that can provide access to more of these critical raw materials. Photo: Thor Nielsen Standard The smartphone, electric cars, hydrogen storage, wind turbines. The...
...politically unstable countries, how easy it is for key value chains to be seriously disrupted, and how vulnerable our European economic model is. Ana Maria Martinez is a research scientist at SINTEF who works on developing innovative and enviornmentally friendly technologies designed to recover critical raw...
Contact: Ana Maria Martinez Kai Tang Norwegian scientists are extracting rare earth metals from scrap. Their aim is to prevent scarcity of materials from holding back energy-conservation efforts. Rare earth metals are essential materials for wind-turbines and environmentally friendly cars, but they...