Sources, behaviour, and environmental and human health risks of high-technology rare earth elements as emerging contaminants

W Gwenzi, L Mangori, C Danha, N Chaukura… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent studies show that high-technology rare earth elements (REEs) of anthropogenic
origin occur in the environment including in aquatic systems, suggesting REEs are …

Rare earth elements (REE) for the removal and recovery of phosphorus: A review

A Kunhikrishnan, MA Rahman, D Lamb, NS Bolan… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
There is little doubt that 'rock phosphate'reserves are decreasing, with phosphorus (P) peak
to be reached in the coming decades. Hence, removal and recovery of phosphorus (P) from …

Rare earth metals are essential for methanotrophic life in volcanic mudpots

A Pol, TRM Barends, A Dietl… - Environmental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Growth of M ethylacidiphilum fumariolicum S olV, an extremely acidophilic methanotrophic
microbe isolated from an I talian volcanic mudpot, is shown to be strictly dependent on the …

PQQ-dependent methanol dehydrogenases: rare-earth elements make a difference

JT Keltjens, A Pol, J Reimann… - Applied microbiology and …, 2014 - Springer
Methanol dehydrogenase (MDH) catalyzes the first step in methanol use by methylotrophic
bacteria and the second step in methane conversion by methanotrophs. Gram-negative …

[HTML][HTML] Aquatic ecotoxicity of lanthanum–A review and an attempt to derive water and sediment quality criteria

H Herrmann, J Nolde, S Berger, S Heise - … and environmental safety, 2016 - Elsevier
Rare earth elements (REE) used to be taken as tracers of geological origin for fluvial
transport. Nowadays their increased applications in innovative environmental-friendly …

Environmental fate and ecotoxicity of lanthanides: are they a uniform group beyond chemistry?

V Gonzalez, DAL Vignati, C Leyval… - Environment international, 2014 - Elsevier
Lanthanides are a chemically uniform group of metals (La–Lu) that, together with yttrium (Y)
and scandium (Sc), form the group of rare earth elements (REEs). Because of their many …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging lanthanum (III)-containing materials for phosphate removal from water: A review towards future developments

Y Zhi, C Zhang, R Hjorth, A Baun, OW Duckworth… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
The last two decades have seen a rise in the development of lanthanum (III)-containing
materials (LM) for controlling phosphate in the aquatic environment.> 70 papers have been …

Ecotoxicological effects of lanthanum in Mytilus galloprovincialis: Biochemical and histopathological impacts

J Pinto, M Costa, C Leite, C Borges, F Coppola… - Aquatic toxicology, 2019 - Elsevier
Inappropriate processing and disposal of electronic waste contributes to the contamination
of aquatic systems by various types of pollutants such as the rare-earth elements (REE) in …

What do we know about the ecotoxicological implications of the rare earth element gadolinium in aquatic ecosystems?

G Trapasso, S Chiesa, R Freitas, E Pereira - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gadolinium (Gd) is one of the most commercially exploited rare earth elements, commonly
employed in magnetic resonance imaging as a contrast agent. The present review was …

Neutron activation analysis in the life sciences

MV Frontasyeva - Physics of particles and nuclei, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Development of methods for instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) and
their applications in the life sciences are reviewed. Emphasis is placed on epithermal …