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Spark Award 2024: procedure for recycling rare earth metals receives award

In order to market the technology, the researchers already founded a start-up called Reecover

26-Nov-2024 - The prize for the most promising invention of the past year goes to Marie Amélie Perrin and Victor Mougel. They have developed a method that enables rare earth elements to be efficiently recovered from electrical waste. Rare earth elements are an indispensable part of modern electronics. They can ...

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Mining rare earth metals from electronic waste

Start-up wants to turn waste into treasure

10-Jul-2024 - ETH researchers are developing a process inspired by nature that efficiently recovers europium from old fluorescent lamps. The approach could lead to the long-awaited recycling of rare earth metals. Rare earth metals are not as rare as their name suggests. However, they are indispensable for the ...

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Efficient Recycling Process for Rare Earths Through Bioleaching and Bioaccumulation

Great potential in the recovery of valuable materials from electronic waste: Up to 85% recovery of rare earths achieved in the laboratory

12-Jun-2024 - A research collaboration between BOKU Tulln and IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems is using the further development of bioleaching and bioaccumulation to develop a two-stage, environmentally friendly and sustainable process for recovering rare earths. In the bioaccumulation step, metal ...

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Will the climate transition be a battle of materials?

Heavy additional demand for commodities like cobalt, lithium, copper, aluminium and iron: Countermeasures include behavioural changes in mobility, housing and nutritin

06-Jun-2024 - As things stand today, global demand for cobalt and lithium for e-car batteries will increase almost twenty-fold by 2050. By then, the development of a fossil-free power supply will require a lot of copper, aluminium and iron, and the respective demand is likely to roughly double. Rare earth ...

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Returning rare earth element production to the United States

ReElement Technologies licenses Purdue critical mineral refining tech and will begin production in late 2024

29-Apr-2024 - ReElement Technologies signed an exclusive license to use patented Purdue University technologies to domestically refine and sell minerals critical in manufacturing modern, high-tech products for commercial and industrial use. The license was signed during thePurdue Innovates Startup and ...

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A circular economy for rare-earth elements: How could it work?

Only about 1% of REEs are recycled

21-Jul-2023 - Rare-earth elements (REEs) are found in smartphones, camera lenses, plasma screens, hard drives and even artificial joints. They play an essential role in the production of clean energy and thus in climate protection, for example as a component of energy-saving light bulbs, solar cells, wind ...

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Revolutionary breakthrough: bacteria help in the circular economy of rare earths

Recycling Rare Earths with biomass: Previously uninvestigated strains of cyanobacteria can adsorb metals

01-Mar-2023 - Rare Earth metals are essential to countless high-tech applications. Working together with the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, a research team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now succeeded in recycling these valuable metals from aqueous solutions using previously ...

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The color play of mineral resources

Finding rare earths: Dr. René Booysen receives the L'Oréal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science for her exploration research

08-Nov-2022 - Dr. René Booysen researches the exploration of mineral deposits. At the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF), belonging to the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), she develops sensor-based exploration techniques to identify resources in a non-invasive way. Each ...

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More Than Superfood: Duckweed is not only rich in nutrients, it also stores rare earths to a particularly high degree

Researchers at Jacobs University Study Use of Duckweed

04-Oct-2022 - In Asia, duckweed has been used as a food for a long time. The research group CritMET: Critical Metals for Enabling Technologies at Jacobs University Bremen recently discovered that duckweed is not only rich in nutrients, it also stores rare earths to a particularly high degree. Anna-Lena Zocher ...

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Levitating rarities

Magnetic trapping of rare-earth ions may lead to a handy technology for their separation

09-Jun-2022 - Some raw materials are considered critical by the European Commission. These include many representatives from the rare-earth elements group, for which supply bottlenecks are imminent and no simple substitute options in technological applications exist. With currently no economically feasible ...

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