| The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is considering issuing a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to support the development of new technologies to recover high energy-value materials from wastewater. These new technologies would aim to reduce reliance on foreign imports, domestic energy demands, and greenhouse gas emissions associated with conventional sourcing and waste stream treatment. The purpose of this announcement is to facilitate the formation of new project teams. The anticipated goal of the program is to develop technology to recover multiple critical minerals and/or ammonia-based products from domestic wastewater sources. Critical minerals of highest interest are those designated by DOE as the twelve most energy and supply-chain relevant metals, including lithium, cobalt, and rare-earth elements. Several technical categories are foreseen to achieve this objective, including: 1) New functional-materials development to address the difficulty of separating and concentrating target ions of similar size, charge, redox potential, and solubility within the complex and harsh conditions of a target wastewater matrix; 2) Process derisking to enable continuous or repeated cycles of efficient recovery of a market-valuable product in minimal steps; and 3) Process integration to ensure technologies are capable of energy-efficient and continuous recovery of market-valuable product in a real wastewater matrix, and that the process is scalable to anticipated wastewater flow rates. For all categories, the final recovered products will need to include at least two targeted high energy-value materials, have greater than 90% recovery efficiency, and be commercially viable in the U.S. market. ARPA-E held a workshop on Ammonia and Critical Minerals Recovery in August 2024, and more information on this topic can be found here. The Teaming Partner List for this anticipated NOFO is being compiled to facilitate the formation of new project teams, and is available on ARPA-eXCHANGE, ARPA-E's online application portal. It will be updated periodically until the close of the Full Application period to reflect new Teaming Partners who have provided their information. ARPA-E strongly encourages outstanding scientists and engineers from different organizations, scientific disciplines, and technology sectors to submit their information to form new project teams. Interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration spanning organizational boundaries enables and accelerates the achievement of scientific and technological outcomes that were previously viewed as extremely difficult, if not impossible. Any organization that would like to be included on this list should complete all required fields in the Applicant Profile registration form. Required information includes: Organization Name, Contact Name, Contact Address, Contact Email, Contact Phone, Organization Type, Area of Technical Expertise, and Brief Description of Capabilities. | 
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