Improving rare-earth-free magnets through microstructure engineering miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An innovative method of recycling rare earth elements from electronic waste has gone commercial. A team of researchers from the Critical Materials Institute (CMI), a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, developed a novel way to extract rare earth elements (rare earths) from the high-powered magnets in electronic waste (e-waste).
Potato wastewater could feed bacteria used to recycle high tech devices eastidahonews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eastidahonews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
IDAHO FALLS â Every year, it takes millions of gallons of water to clean, peel and slice Idahoâs potatoes before theyâre processed into any number of products from tater tots and animal feed to industrial starch.
As a result, Idaho potato processors must treat and dispose of a large amount of wastewater that contains organic matter, silt and sand.
But now, new research from Idaho National Laboratory suggests that potato wastewater might serve well as a low-cost food source for a special bacterium that could be used to recycle high-tech devices, industrial catalysts and other sources of rare earth elements.