[6][7] He then established American Elements facilities in Salt Lake City, Utah; Monterrey, Mexico; Baotou, China;[8] and Manchester, England and expanded production to include newly discovered elemental forms of other advanced materials such as nanoparticles,[9] green technology & alternative energy materials[10][11] and advanced military alloys.

[3] The Department has sponsored academic and industry conferences in fields including space exploration,[14] nanotechnology,[15] green technologies,[16] solar energy[16] and robotics.

In recognition of the gift, the Getty Board of Trustees named the Michael Silver Family Gallery at the museum.

[19] He has made in-kind donations of artwork to the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, DC.

[20] Silver writes and speaks on several topics including: In 2010, Silver coined the phrases "innovation distortion"[38] to describe efforts to avoid the use of a given element solely because of concerns that it may be hoarded by nations with resource control of that material and "the environmentalism Catch-22" to describe the dilemma faced by the environmental movement which both supports a green technology future reliant on solar energy, wind power, electric cars and fuel cells and concurrently opposes the mining of the critical metals from which these technologies are manufactured.