Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Room 13-5066
Cambridge, MA 02139
allanore@mit.edu (617)452-2758
Profile
Antoine Allanore is a Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is the Director of the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE).
Professor Allanore received his higher education in Nancy (France) where he earned a chemical process engineer diploma from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques and a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from Lorraine University. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 as a post-doctoral, after several years of service as research engineer for ArcelorMittal. In 2012, he was appointed the T.B. King Assistant Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. He teaches thermodynamics and sustainable chemical metallurgy at both the undergraduate and graduate level. His research has led to several new process technologies that are currently under deployment either at MIT or around the world, being for the production of iron and steel by electrolysis without GHG emissions, of new potash fertilizers from feldspars, or of aluminum alloys with more recycled content and less energy consumption.
His interest in archeology and anthropology lies in the studies of metals and minerals, using the tools of materials science and engineering. He is particularly interested in the cultural evolution of the relationship between humans and natural resources in the context of the production of metals and minerals across the ages. This supports deeper insights into the modern construct of sustainability – notably via the study of productivity – as well as renewed insight into previous constructs or practices. His research group investigates such questions using the fundamentals of process metallurgy, in particular using thermodynamic and process modeling to support experimental testing of hypothesis.
Selected Publications
M. Wagner, A. Allanore. Electrochemical Separation of Ag2S and Cu2S from Molten Sulfide Electrolyte, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, vol 169-6, (2022).
C. Stinn, A. Allanore. Selective Sulfidation of Metal Compounds, Nature, 602 (7895), 78-83, (2022).
K. Daehn and A. Allanore. Electrolytic production of copper from chalcopyrite, Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, vol. 22, 110-119, (2020).
D. Ciceri and A. Allanore. Local fertilizers to achieve food self-sufficiency in Africa, Science of the Total Environment, vol. 648, 669-680 (2018).
D. Ciceri, D. Manning and A. Allanore. Historical and technical developments of potassium resources, Science of the Total Environment, vol 502., 590-601, (2015).
A. Allanore, Contribution of Electricity to Materials Processing: Historical and Current Perspectives, Journal of Metals (JOM), vol. 65, issue 2, 130-135, (2013).