Recent advances in selective separation technologies of rare earth elements: A review

Z Chen, Z Li, J Chen, P Kallem, F Banat… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the continuous improvement of technological level, the potential of rare earth elements
(REEs) called" industrial gold" in various fields has been continuously explored, and some …

Rare earth elements: Mendeleev's bane, modern marvels

T Cheisson, EJ Schelter - Science, 2019 - science.org
The rare earths (REs) are a family of 17 elements that exhibit pronounced chemical
similarities as a group, while individually expressing distinctive and varied electronic …

The chemistry of lanthanides in biology: recent discoveries, emerging principles, and technological applications

JA Cotruvo Jr - ACS central science, 2019 - ACS Publications
The essential biological role of rare earth elements lay hidden until the discovery in 2011
that lanthanides are specifically incorporated into a bacterial methanol dehydrogenase. Only …

Rare earth starting materials and methodologies for synthetic chemistry

F Ortu - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The number of rare earth (RE) starting materials used in synthesis is staggering, ranging
from simple binary metal-halide salts to borohydrides and “designer reagents” such as alkyl …

Coordination chemistry-driven approaches to rare earth element separations

RF Higgins, KP Ruoff, A Kumar… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Current projections for global mining indicate that unsustainable practices will
cause supply problems for many elements, called critical raw materials, in the next 20 years …

Biological, biomolecular, and bio-inspired strategies for detection, extraction, and separations of lanthanides and actinides

JA Mattocks, JA Cotruvo - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Lanthanides and actinides are elements of ever-increasing technological importance in the
modern world. However, the similar chemical and physical properties within these groups …

Selective adsorption of rare earth elements by Zn-BDC MOF/graphene oxide nanocomposites synthesized via in situ interlayer-confined strategy

Z Chen, Z Li, J Chen, H Tan, J Wu… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Separation of rare earth elements has always been an urgent problem in the industry.
Although a variety of adsorption materials have been developed for the adsorption and …

Supramolecular ligands for the extraction of lanthanide and actinide ions

EJ Werner, SM Biros - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Interest in the isolation and recovery of lanthanide and actinide metals has gained recent
attention due to their increasing use in everyday materials (eg batteries, screens, sensors) …

Chelator‐Assisted Precipitation‐Based Separation of the Rare Earth Elements Neodymium and Dysprosium from Aqueous Solutions

Y Gao, GL Licup, NP Bigham… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The rare earth elements (REEs) are critical resources for many clean energy technologies,
but are difficult to obtain in their elementally pure forms because of their nearly identical …

Magnetic field directed rare‐earth separations

RF Higgins, T Cheisson, BE Cole… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The separation of rare‐earth ions from one another is challenging due to their chemical and
physical similarities. Nearly all rare‐earth separations rely upon small changes in ionic radii …