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Office for Innovation

Featured Innovations
Dr. Joseph Cotruvo

Project: Found a natural protein that can be used to find, collect, and separate rare earth metals in an environmentally-friendly way.

Funding/awards: Lab Bench to Commercialization

Relevant publications:

IP navigator: Highly Selective Metal-Binding Protein for Rare-Earth Elements.

Current status:

Joey Cotruvo featured innovations website.

PSU News Story

New, environmentally friendly method to extract and separate rare earth elements