Apr. 16—West Virginia University will receive $8 million, through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, to develop a first-of-a-kind facility to extract and separate rare earth elements and ...
Seventeen elements of the periodic table have taken on outsize importance because of their use in smartphones, electric vehicles, medical devices, and other technologies. They’re valued for their ...
Low-grade sources of rare earth elements (REE), for example from industrial waste, typically contain many rare earth elements and other metals mixed together. A new extraction and separation method ...
Mobile phones are made up of over 30 elements like lithium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, yttrium, terbium, gold, and silver. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) President Biden signed an executive ...
Cornell researchers recently used genetic engineering to improve the extraction of rare earth elements using a bacteria called Vibrio natriegens. According to co-lead author Sean Medin grad, REEs are ...