All the world’s discarded phones, bricked laptops, and other trashed electronics are collectively a treasure trove of rare earth elements (REEs). But separating out and recovering these increasingly ...
A rare earth breakthrough could rewrite the rules of recycling. Scientists at IOCB Prague have developed a cleaner, smarter way to recover these critical elements, crucial to technologies from ...
Creating strong permanent magnets without using so-called rare earth elements is an ongoing topic of research. An interesting contestant here are iron nitride magnets (α”-Fe 16 N 2), which have the ...