The transition to low-carbon economies, advancements in high-tech and rapid uptake of
electronic equipment will see increased demand over the coming decades for so-called …

Phytoremediation is perceived as a promising technique for remediation of heavy metal
(HM) contaminated soils, while the harvested HM-enriched hyperaccumulator biomass …

Phytomining technology employs hyperaccumulator plants to take up metal in harvestable
plant biomass. Harvesting, drying and incineration of the biomass generates a high-grade …

Abstract In 2022, nickel (Ni) was nominated as a critical metal due to its wide applications in
the metal industry, especially in clean energy applications to achieve climate mitigation …

Due to the increasing global severe soil pollution, a large number of heavy metal elements
are enriched in biomass grown in polluted areas and hyperaccumulators used for …

Large ultramafic areas exist in Albania, which could be suitable for phytomining with native
Alyssum murale. We undertook a five-year field experiment on an ultramafic Vertisol, aimed …

With the rapid depletion of fossil energy and increasingly severe environmental pollution,
the development of biomass resources for biorefineries has become a new research focus …

Rare earth (RE) elements are a group of 17 chemical elements including the 15 lanthanides
plus Yttrium and Scandium. RE have been identified as critical elements due to their special …

Abandoned mine lands (AMLs), which are considered some of the most dangerous
anthropogenic activities in the world, are a source of hazards relating to potentially toxic …

An original process aiming at selectively extracting REEs from the hyperaccumulator plant
Dicranopteris dichotoma was developed. This process relies on an enhanced ion exchange …