Resources

Welcome to the ELEMENTAL Hub Resources page, your central destination for key documents, guidance, and materials related to our research.

Here you’ll find information to support collaboration, project development, and knowledge exchange across the Hub. Whether you’re a researcher, industry partner, or stakeholder, these resources are designed to help you navigate our programmes, understand our focus areas, and engage with the work we’re doing to develop sustainable solutions for metal recovery and reuse.

Publications and Papers

Explore our latest scientific insights, reviews, contributions, and research breakthroughs in microbial biotechnology, metal-ion biology, and the sustainable environmental processing of metals.

Elizabeth Rylott: Critical Minerals? There’s a Plant for That, Could phytomining- using plants to pull metal out of the soil- put the green in “green transition”? (2025)

Jhuma Sadhukhan: Aligning platinum recycling with hydrogen economy growth: a comparative LCA of hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical methods (2025)

Elizabeth L Rylott: Harnessing hyperaccumulator plants to recover technology-critical metals: where are we at? (2025)

Natalie Byrd: Hydrogenase Mediated Biosynthesis of Catalytically Active Cu Nanoparticles (2025)

Durham University: A metal-trap tests and refines blueprints to engineer cellular protein metalation with different elements (2025)

Peter T. Chivers: One His, two His...the emerging roles of histidine in cellular nickel trafficking. (2024)

EBNet: Green stories: microbes to the rescue! (2024)

Keeping sensitive research and intellectual property secure

Trusted Research, in the broadest terms, is about protecting and keeping sensitive research and intellectual property secure from theft, misuse, or exploitation. Trusted Research advice and guidance has been jointly published by NPSA (National Protective Security Authority) and the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre), to support the integrity of international research collaboration.

Trusted Research Guidance for Academia

Trusted Research Guidance for Countries and Conferences

Trusted Research Guidance for Industry

University and business collaboration agreements: Lambert Toolkit

Logos and Branding

Here you can access a selection of Elemental logos, available for use in publications, presentations, posters, and other relevant materials. If you plan to use the Elemental logo in any of your work, please let the Elemental Hub team know by sending an email to elementalmetalhub@kent.ac.uk. This helps us track usage and ensure consistent branding across all communications. If you require the logo in a different format or have any questions, feel free to get in touch.

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Tools and Metrics

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Professor Paul Freemont recently Chaired a Task Force which identified key priority areas for standards and metrics development in engineering biology. Their report may be found here.

A more extensive and user friendly “Metalation Calculator II” has been released based on data from a new paper. Find the “Metalation Calculator II” on the E3B BBSRC NIBB website.

Letters of Support

Elemental offers letters of support to our members who are applying for grants or funding opportunities related to metal recovery, engineering biology, and other aligned research areas. These letters can help strengthen your application by demonstrating institutional backing and alignment with Elemental’s mission.

If you are a member and would like to request a letter of support, please get in touch with us at elementalmetalhub@kent.ac.uk with details of your proposal, the funding body, and any relevant deadlines.

We recommend contacting us as early as possible to allow sufficient time for review and preparation of your letter.