The extraction of critical metal ions, particularly lanthanides and actinides, is a topic of considerable importance given their applications in energy production, recycling, and nuclear waste ...

Conventional wisdom among chemists has been that most lanthanide elements could exist in compounds only in the +3 oxidation state. Overturning that long-standing assumption, researchers have now ...

Lanthanides comprise a unique and dominant resource of China. The increase in contact for populations through lanthanide mining and the wide applications for industry, agriculture, and medicine have ...

Lanthanide elements are important for clean energy and other applications. To use them, industry must separate mixed lanthanide sources into individual elements using costly, time-consuming, and waste ...

UV-Visible-NIR microspectroscopy brings together high spatial resolution of microscopy and the spectral analysis capabilities of spectroscopy, encompassing the ultraviolet (UV), visible and ...

Lanthanides are rare-earth heavy metals with useful magnetic properties and a knack for emitting light. Researchers had long assumed that lanthanides' toxicity risk was low and therefore safe to ...

Rare-earth metals are essential parts of electronic components in phones, vehicles, displays, and wind turbines. A new study shows that a recently discovered protein from bacteria outperforms many ...

A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details an exhaustive compilation of the potential toxicities to the human genome from rare-earth heavy metals ...

Lanthanides are rare-earth heavy metals with useful magnetic properties and a knack for emitting light. Researchers had long assumed that lanthanides' toxicity risk was low and therefore safe to ...

X-rays are electromagnetic waves with short wavelengths and strong penetrability in physical matter, including live organisms. Scintillators capable of converting X-rays into the ultraviolet (UV), ...