James M. Tour is named in the source archive flash Joule heating dossier as an author on the Rice University rare-earth recovery work using chlorination-assisted flash Joule heating (FJH-Cl₂). The dossier associates the broader flash Joule heating patent family with the Rice University / Tour research orbit, though the supplied text names no assignees on the individual patent filings.
Role in the dossier
Tour appears as a named author on the FJH-Cl₂ rare-earth recovery work reported to achieve >90% purity and yield from waste magnets in a single step, with 87% energy, 84% GHG and 54% operating-cost reductions versus hydrometallurgy. He is also part of the research context for Turbostratic Graphene synthesis and the wider Flash Joule Heating (FJH) program.
The dossier does not provide biographical detail, institutional title or a complete publication list for Tour.
Related pages
Rice University · Flash Joule Heating (FJH) · Turbostratic Graphene
Source notes & attribution
- https://rexresearch.com/FlashJouleHeating/FlashJouleHeating.html