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• Rare metals from e-waste
  

  This year, beautifully wrapped laptops, mobile phones or even new TV sets lay under numerous Christmas trees. They are enthusiastically put into use – and the old electronic devices are disposed of. The e-waste contains resources such as neodymium, indium and gold. What happens to the valuable mater more

• New material for solid oxide fuel cells

  Scientists have replaced some of the iron atoms in the composition Nd0.5Ba0.5FeO3-δ by cobalt, while simultaneously increasing the conductivity and lowering the thermal expansion of the material. To improve conductivity through the change in the number of defects as a starting point for the study, s more

• Materials processing tricks enable engineers to create new laser material
  

  By doping alumina crystals with neodymium ions, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new laser material that is capable of emitting ultra-short, high-power pulses--a combination that could potentially yield smaller, more powerful lasers with superior thermal shock res more

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Infographics Neodymium

The Lanthanides

This graphic looks at the elements known as the lanthanides – the ones stranded at the bottom of the periodic table, along with the actinides. For a group of elements that doesn’t really get much attention in chemistry teaching until at least undergraduate level, their applications are remarkably wi more

The Chemical Elements of a Smartphone

There are an isolated few graphics online that look at elements involved in the manufacture of a smartphone – for example, this ‘Periodic Table of iPhones’ – but there’s actually remarkably little easily accessible information out there that details the specific compounds used for specific purposes more

Publications Neodymium

• Novel nano–dyad of homoleptic sandwich–type phthalocyanines with nitrogen doped graphene quantum dots for nonlinear optics

  The syntheses of neodymium(III) 2,9,16,23–tetrakis–(2,6–di–tert–butyl–4–methylphenoxy) phthalocyanine (2), bis europium(III) 2,9,16,23–tetrakis–(2,6–di–tert–butyl–4–methylphenoxy) phthalocyanine (3), bis dysprosium(III) 2,9,16,23–tetrakis–(2,6–di–tert–butyl–4–methylphenoxy) phthalocyanine (4) and th more

• Energies, Vol. 11, Pages 1356: On the Optimal Pole Width for Direct Drive Linear Wave Power Generators Using Ferrite Magnets

  Energies, Vol. 11, Pages 1356: On the Optimal Pole Width for Direct Drive Linear Wave Power Generators Using Ferrite Magnets Energies doi: 10.3390/en11061356 Authors: Anders Hagnestål In this work, ferrite magnet linear generators for wave power applications are considered. These mach more

• Synthesis, Structure and Polymorphic Transitions of Praseodymium(III) and Neodymium(III) Borohydride, Pr(BH4)3 and Nd(BH4)3

  In this work, praseodymium(III) borohydride, Pr(BH4)3, and the isotopically enriched analogue, Pr(11BD4)3, are prepared by a new route via a solvate complex, Pr(11BD4)3S(CH3)2. Nd(BH4)3 was synthesized using the same method and the structures, polymorphic transformations, and thermal stabilities of more