IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcom/v8y2017i1d10.1038_ncomms15670.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Rationally designed mineralization for selective recovery of the rare earth elements

Author

Listed:
  • Takaaki Hatanaka

    (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.)

  • Akimasa Matsugami

    (NMR Facility Support Unit, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technology)

  • Takamasa Nonaka

    (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.)

  • Hideki Takagi

    (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.)

  • Fumiaki Hayashi

    (NMR Facility Support Unit, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technology)

  • Takao Tani

    (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.)

  • Nobuhiro Ishida

    (Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.)

Abstract

The increasing demand for rare earth (RE) elements in advanced materials for permanent magnets, rechargeable batteries, catalysts and lamp phosphors necessitates environmentally friendly approaches for their recovery and separation. Here, we propose a mineralization concept for direct extraction of RE ions with Lamp (lanthanide ion mineralization peptide). In aqueous solution containing various metal ions, Lamp promotes the generation of RE hydroxide species with which it binds to form hydrophobic complexes that accumulate spontaneously as insoluble precipitates, even under physiological conditions (pH ∼6.0). This concept for stabilization of an insoluble lanthanide hydroxide complex with an artificial peptide also works in combination with stable scaffolds like synthetic macromolecules and proteins. Our strategy opens the possibility for selective separation of target metal elements from seawater and industrial wastewater under mild conditions without additional energy input.

Suggested Citation

  • Takaaki Hatanaka & Akimasa Matsugami & Takamasa Nonaka & Hideki Takagi & Fumiaki Hayashi & Takao Tani & Nobuhiro Ishida, 2017. "Rationally designed mineralization for selective recovery of the rare earth elements," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 8(1), pages 1-10, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:8:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms15670
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15670
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15670
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/ncomms15670?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Abbas, Khizar & Han, Mengyao & Xu, Deyi & Butt, Khalid Manzoor & Baz, Khan & Cheng, Jinhua & Zhu, Yongguang & Hussain, Sanwal, 2024. "Exploring synergistic and individual causal effects of rare earth elements and renewable energy on multidimensional economic complexity for sustainable economic development," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 364(C).

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:8:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms15670. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.