{"690721":{"#nid":"690721","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A Nanoscience Mystery Inside a Critical Mineral","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/lang-karl\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKarl Lang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/as.nyu.edu\/faculty\/claudia-avalos.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EClaudia Avalos\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor at New York University, are among the eight research teams to receive an award through the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rescorp.org\/scialog\/sustainable-minerals-metals-materials\/\u0022\u003E2025 Scialog: Sustainable Metals, Minerals, and Materials\u003C\/a\u003E initiative.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESupported by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kavlifoundation.org\/\u0022\u003EThe Kavli Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, the collaboration will focus on monazite, a group of rare earth-bearing minerals essential for modern technology, including clean energy technologies. Using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, Lang and Avalos will examine how the mineral\u2019s atomic structure responds to radiation damage and annealing. By observing the material at the atomic scale, they aim to uncover the fundamental mechanisms at work, uncovering insights that could lead to processing innovations and improved applications.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/lang-karl\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKarl Lang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/as.nyu.edu\/faculty\/claudia-avalos.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EClaudia Avalos\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor at New York University, are among the eight research teams to receive an award through the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rescorp.org\/scialog\/sustainable-minerals-metals-materials\/\u0022\u003E2025 Scialog: Sustainable Metals, Minerals, and Materials\u003C\/a\u003E initiative.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESupported by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kavlifoundation.org\/\u0022\u003EThe Kavli Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, the collaboration will focus on monazite, a group of rare earth-bearing minerals essential for modern technology, including clean energy technologies. Using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, Lang and Avalos will examine how the mineral\u2019s atomic structure responds to radiation damage and annealing. By observing the material at the atomic scale, they aim to uncover the fundamental mechanisms at work, uncovering insights that could lead to processing innovations and improved applications.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-06-10 19:45:24","changed_gmt":"2026-06-11 16:26:08","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Kavli Foundation Newsroom","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.kavlifoundation.org\/news\/a-nanoscience-mystery-inside-a-critical-mineral","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"184997","name":"Scialog"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}