The extraction of critical metal ions, particularly lanthanides and actinides, is a topic of considerable importance given their applications in energy production, recycling, and nuclear waste ...

"Hypersaline brine" is industrial waste-water with salt levels that exceed even that of seawater. It's a big, expensive, destructive problem which a team of engineers at Columbia University in New ...

A bacterial culture can do the work of separating rare-earth elements, or lanthanides, used widely in advanced batteries and magnets (Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2016, DOI: ...

With the help of a little light, a metal-organic framework (MOF) containing photoluminescent lanthanides can uniquely identify and measure the concentrations of multiple solvents, a research team ...

Several waterless extraction methods being piloted that use less energy, produce fewer emissions EDMONTON—Oilsands producers have been under siege for years, with environmentalists, politicians and ...