Rare earth elements (REEs) are important high-tech materials with widespread industrial
applications and a high risk of supply disruption. Current physico-chemical methods for REE …

New surfactants are not necessarily better than established surfactants; new surfactants
need to be better, cheaper or have a lower environmental impact to have an advantage …

Critical metals, identified from supply, demand, imports, and market factors, include rare
earth elements (REEs), platinum group metals, precious metals, and other valuable metals …

Mining of uranium for defense-related purposes has left a substantial legacy of pollution that
threatens human and environmental health. Contaminated waters in the arid southwest are …

Real-time and visual monitoring of pollutants in the air is of great importance since they are
usually cannot be seen, smelled, or touched. Lanthanide nano-cluster is a kind of …

Foam (ion and precipitate) flotation is a promising green method of recovery of rare earth
elements (REE) from leachates of the primary and secondary resources. However, the …

Synthetic monorhamnolipids differ from biologically produced material because they are
produced as single congeners, depending on the β-hydroxyalkanoic acid used during …

The demand of rare earth elements (REE) has grown over the past decades due to their
importance in high technology devices such as wind turbines, superconductors …

The volume of produced water, a by-product of oil & gas operations and other energy
processes, has been growing across the United States (US) along with the need to manage …

Identifying and exploiting cost-effective and green methods of metal recovery from natural
and contaminated aqueous systems is widely recognized as necessary to supplement the …