Rare earth elements sit quietly inside smartphones, electric vehicles, and wind turbines, yet they are notoriously difficult and dirty to produce. A new lab technique now promises to roughly double ...

Every student learns that oil and water don’t mix. But there are exceptions. The two liquids are immiscible, but they can be blended together into an emulsion in which small droplets of oil are ...

This is on the back of our announcement yesterday that we've decided to use SX as the optimal route for separation for our Phalaborwa project in South Africa, and this is to separate rare earths out ...

Rare earth elements are essential for modern technology, but their similar chemistry makes separation difficult and expensive ...