A review of acid recovery from acidic mining waste solutions using solvent extraction

U Kesieme, A Chrysanthou, M Catulli… - Journal of Chemical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The minerals industry is increasingly being forced by regulatory and cost pressures to
reduce the amount of liquid acidic waste they produce. This requires a strong focus on waste …

Light, water, and melatonin: the synergistic regulation of phase separation in dementia

D Loh, RJ Reiter - International journal of molecular sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The swift rise in acceptance of molecular principles defining phase separation by a broad
array of scientific disciplines is shadowed by increasing discoveries linking phase …

Molecular forces in liquid–liquid extraction

M Špadina, JF Dufrêche, S Pellet-Rostaing… - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
The phase transfer of ions is driven by gradients of chemical potentials rather than
concentrations alone (ie, by both the molecular forces and entropy). Extraction is a …

A telescoping view of solute architectures in a complex fluid system

R Motokawa, T Kobayashi, H Endo, J Mu… - ACS central …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Short-and long-range correlations between solutes in solvents can influence the
macroscopic chemistry and physical properties of solutions in ways that are not fully …

Critical fluctuations in liquid–liquid extraction organic phases controlled by extractant and diluent molecular structure

BL Bonnett, D Sheyfer, PN Wimalasiri… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Extractant aggregation in liquid–liquid extraction organic phases impacts extraction
energetics and is related to the deleterious efficiency-limiting liquid–liquid phase transition …

Aeriometallurgical extraction of rare earth elements from a NdFeB magnet utilizing supercritical fluids

J Zhang, J Anawati, Y Yao, G Azimi - ACS Sustainable Chemistry …, 2018 - ACS Publications
There is a global need for efficient and environmentally sustainable processes to close the
life cycle loop of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) through recycling …

Surfactant-enhanced heterogeneity of the aqueous interface drives water extraction into organic solvents

MJ Servis, AE Clark - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid/liquid extraction (LLE) is one of the most industrially relevant separation methods,
successfully leveraging the variable solubility of solutes (or their complexes) between two …

A novel microemulsion phase transition: Toward the elucidation of third-phase formation in spent nuclear fuel reprocessing

J Mu, R Motokawa, K Akutsu, S Nishitsuji… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We present evidence that the transition between organic and third phases, which can be
observed in the plutonium uranium reduction extraction (PUREX) process at high metal …

Remediation and recycling of inorganic acids and their green alternatives for sustainable industrial chemical processes

C Agarwal, AK Pandey - Environmental Science: Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The uses of inorganic acids as a solvent, leachant, and lixiviant are widespread in many
commercially important industrial processes, including mining, metallurgy, metal-processing …

Molecular design of amphiphiles for Microenvironment-Sensitive kinetically controlled gelation and their utility in probing alcohol contents

D Biswakarma, N Dey, S Bhattacharya - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pyrene-laced 'fluorescent'amphiphiles have been designed with a C4-alkyl chain as
'hydrophobic spacer'and sugar moiety as hydrophilic residue. The amphiphile containing …