Adsorption of rare earth elements in regolith-hosted clay deposits

Adsorption of rare earth elements in regolith-hosted clay deposits

Global resources of heavy Rare Earth Elements (REE) are dominantly sourced from Chinese regolith-hosted ion-adsorption deposits, yet the adsorption mechanisms remain unclear. Here, the authors find that heavy REE are adsorbed as easily leachable 8-coordinated outer-sphere hydrated complexes, dominan...

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Main Authors: Anouk M. Borst, Martin P. Smith, Adrian A. Finch, Guillaume Estrade, Cristina Villanova-de-Benavent, Peter Nason, Eva Marquis, Nicola J. Horsburgh, Kathryn M. Goodenough, Cheng Xu, Jindřich Kynický, Kalotina Geraki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17801-5

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17801-5

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