Substitution and Reduction of Critical and Strategic Raw Materials in Clean Energy Technologies

The shift to clean energy technologies demands growing amounts of critical raw materials. Advanced materials – engineered for enhanced properties – offer a pathway to reduce this dependence while improving performance, lifetime, or cost. 

This report examines the current landscape of advanced materials and their potential to substitute or reduce critical raw materials in energy technologies. 

It focuses on five key areas: batteries, wind turbines, solar photovoltaics, fuel cells and electrolysers and electric-vehicle motors.