Despite rare earth elements' importance in manufacturing cell phones, magnets and a host of other consumer and commercial ...
After three years of research, two South Dakota Mines professors have developed a sustainable method to extract rare earth elements from discarded coal mine waste, possibly creating a domestic source ...
The elements critical for the quality and safety of a material are often present in very low concentrations. This requires highly sensitive instrumentation for the determination of elemental ...
Low-grade sources of rare earth elements (REE), for example from industrial waste, typically contain many rare earth elements and other metals mixed together. A new extraction and separation method ...
Merging methodologies from physics and chemistry for the optical spectroscopy of superheavy elements. Superheavy elements are intriguing nuclear and atomic quantum systems that challenge experimental ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as smart phones and electric car batteries—from ...