A new study describes a novel approach for purifying rare earth metals, crucial components of technology that require environmentally-damaging mining procedures. By relying on the metal's magnetic ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers at the Gas Research Center (GRC) are working to reduce the high energy costs of industrial chemical separation processes with a breakthrough separation technique ...

Eric J. Schelter, assistant professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Pennsylvania, speaks to AZoM about the recent development of a new way to chemically separate neodymium and ...

Researchers at Pennsylvania University found a way to separate mixtures of rare earth metals by combining a magnetic field with a decrease in temperature, a process that causes metal ions to ...

Magnetic fields can make separating ‘rare earth’ materials from one another less wasteful, according to the University of Pennsylvania. Used in displays, lasers and magnets, the rare earths are ...

Seventy-five of the periodic table's 118 elements are carried in the pockets and purses of more than 100 million U.S. iPhone users every day. Some of these elements are abundant, like silicon in ...