News & Highlights
Lanthanide extractants with improved properties identified
Research Highlight
Flawless mixer-settler run with CMI diglycolamide REE extractant
CMI partner scales new extractant for REE separation trials
In the News
Science News: Rare earth mining may be key to our renewable energy future. But at what cost?
In the News
ORNL: Seven scientists named Battelle Distinguished Inventors
Santa Jansone-Popova at Oak Ridge National Laboratory leads the CMI project "Enhanced separation of critical materials"
Separation of individual rare earth elements (REE) is regarded as the most difficult processing step in the production of high purity rare earth oxides for end-use technology applications due to their inherent chemical similarities. The current state-of-the-art for industrial REE separations utilizes solvent extraction with phosphonic acids, a complex process notorious for its excessive chemical consumption, wastewater effluents, and hundreds of processing steps required to produce individual purified REE. This project seeks to enable domestic REE production by providing economically viable and environmentally sustainable alternatives for REE separations using novel separation technologies that significantly reduce capital and operating costs.
