Sentences with phrase «rare earth»

Besides confirming theories about the source of some short - duration gamma - ray bursts and the formation mechanism of many of the heavy elements including platinum, lead, gold, and rare earth elements, the gravitational waves enabled us to get a distance to the galaxy independent of the usual step - by - step procedure called the «distance scale ladder».

This has led to the Rare Earth hypothesis, which details the high number of unlikely circumstances that were necessary for life to appear on Earth, and concluding that complex life must be a rare phenomenon throughout the universe.

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Her current application interests are rare earth and heavy element chemistry, catalysis, aerosol formation, cellulose degradation, and photochemistry.

CaloriCool researchers, together with Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, helped organize and host the 28th annual Rare Earth Research Conference in Ames, Iowa June 18 -22.

These properties induce a huge improvement of the capability of storing the energy of the material, a result which suggests that the combination of highly anisotropic AFM FiM materials can be an effective strategy towards the realization of novel Rare Earth - free permanent magnets.

Observations Regarding Past and Potential Future Mining and Its Impacts At Bokan Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska: Potential Rare Earth Element Mining and Uranium Mine Remediation.

«Rare earth science is more exciting than ever,» said Ames Laboratory Director Adam Schwartz to the assembled scientists.

«The technological applications of rare earth elements are at an all - time high, and that just makes the work that all of you do all much more important.»

Meanwhile, Wiltshire said, China is moving to solidify its future monopoly on the rare earth market.

Score another zero for the Rare Earth Hypothesis.

The Wall Street Journal suggested Japan could use the discovery to break China's stranglehold on the rare earth market and prevent future market shocks.

In 2013, deep sea muds containing rare earth elements were discovered off Japan's Minamitorishima Island.

Chen, J., Patil, S., Seal, S. & McGinnis, J. F. Rare earth nanoparticles prevent retinal degeneration induced by intracellular peroxides.

Several sites on the near side sampled by Apollo astronauts had rocks enriched with KREEP — for potassium (K), rare earth elements (REE) and phosphorus (P)-- which resists crystallization from magma and hence remains in a molten state until the entire magma ocean has solidified.

The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA - E REACT program (Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy — Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies) which develops cost - effective alternatives to rare earths, the naturally occurring minerals with unique magnetic properties that are used in electric vehicle (EV) motors, and wind generators.

Russia has beefed up its military presence in the Arctic to levels not seen since the fall of the Soviet Union, as global interest in the region's oil, gas and rare earth metals heats up.

In that year, Frenchman Eugène - Anatole Demarçay isolated the element as an impurity in samples of another rare earth, samarium (named, indirectly, after Russian mine official V. E. Samarsky - Bykhovets).

The new particles are about 200 microns long and include several stripes of different colored nanocrystals, known as «rare earth upconverting nanocrystals.»

The strategy identified five rare earth metals (dysprosium, neodymium, terbium, europium, and yttrium) as well as indium as «most critical in the short term,» as measured by their importance to clean - energy technologies and the risk of supply disruption.

«Instead of trying to regain each individual type of rare earth, we focus on recycling the entire material, meaning the complete magnet — and this in only a few steps,» Oliver Diehl, scientist in the Project Group IWKS explains.

Up until now, this means: You extract the rare earth elements from the magnets again.

The new alloy — a potential replacement for high - performance permanent magnets found in automobile engines and wind turbines — eliminates the use of one of the scarcest and costliest rare earth elements, dysprosium, and instead uses cerium, the most abundant rare earth.

The most powerful ones are based on the rare earth elements neodymium and dysprosium.

Although samarium cobalt magnets (Sm2Co17 magnets), a type of rare earth permanent magnets, were developed in the early 1960's the underlying domain wall pinning mechanism has remained unknown.

The research cluster includes the Departments of Materials and Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering and aims to optimise the use of rare earth permanent magnets.

What costs will be incurred is a question that is currently difficult to answer: «The anticipated financial advantage in recycling the magnets depends not only on the recycling process, but also on the price development for rare earth elements,» Diehl says.

They'll add 50 tons of the rare earth metal gadolinium to the water in Super-K, allowing them to tell the difference between encounters with antineutrinos and other light - emitting pretenders.

The bill also contains authorization for DOE to fund a loan - guarantee program designed to restart U.S. rare earth - mining operations.

Action is heating up in the world of rare earth minerals.

Hall, meanwhile, is developing faster methods to analyze lanthanides, the 15 rare earth elements that, with the radioactive actinides, are key constituents of fallout.

Researchers collected rocks and measured minute isotopic variations in rare earth elements called neodymium and samarium.

Researchers at Germany's Technical University of Darmstadt shone a laser onto a tiny opaque crystal studded with electrically charged atoms of praseodymium, a rare earth element.

Despite belonging to the family of rare earth elements, cerium itself is not particularly scarce.

«This is the first detailed assessment of rare earth elements for the entire nation, describing deposits throughout the United States,» says Marcia McNutt of the US Geological Survey.

The paper also highlights the need to investigate alternatives such as recycling of rare earth elements that could minimize environmental impact in the deep sea and in turn help the Europe's transition to a circular economy.

It's also a waste of resources, like valuable rare earth metals.

Unlike the situation with rare earth metals, though, indium - hungry companies have some supply options.

Researchers from the KU Leuven Department of Chemical Engineering have discovered a method to separate two rare earth elements — europium and yttrium — with UV light instead of with traditional solvents.

An extractant and a solvent are then added to the aqueous liquid, leading to two separate layers known as «phases»: an aqueous layer containing the rare earth metals and a solvent layer with the extractant.

When the two layers come into contact, one of the two rare earth metals is extracted to the solvent, while the other rare earth metal remains in the aqueous layer.»

Cerium dioxide is an oxide of the rare earth element cerium and a by - product of the process of extraction of rare earth metals.

Separating the two rare earth elements is a complicated process.

This light stimulates dyes made with nanocrystals of rare earth elements — a family of 17 similar metals that are not scarce but are difficult to mine.

The unique properties of spin ice materials have fascinated scientists since they were first discovered in the late 1990s in naturally occurring rare earth titanites.

Most previous Antarctic ice core records have not included many of the elements and chemical species that we study, such as heavy metals and rare earth elements, that characterize the anomaly — so in many ways these other studies were blind to the Mt. Takahe event.»

Working there, the pair has created the novel method for processing drive units and electric motors to chemically separate rare earth elements — specifically neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium — from other materials used to make the devices.

In an effort to help develop a sustainable domestic supply of rare earth elements and lessen the United States» dependence on China for materials that are vital to the production of electronics, wind turbines, and many other technologies, two researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a method of extracting rare earths from the drive units and motors of discarded electric and hybrid cars.

Emmert and Bandara's article on rare earth recycling, titled Rare Earth Recovery from End - of - Life Motors employing Green Chemistry Design Principles, was recently published in Green Chemistry.

«We're hoping that starts to change and that the United States becomes less dependent on foreign countries to recover rare earth elements.»