Background: Biosorption plays important roles in the recovery of rare earth metals. The absorption dysprosium (Dy) was tested yeast. Interestingly, brewing yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, showed Dy absorption, and two strains, Alt-OF2 Alt-OF5—previously isolated as highly aluminum-tolerant -absorbing yeast strains—were screened shown to be superior terms their when compared S. cerevisiae. Here...

Since thermoelectrics are an important way to produce electricity from waste heat, the thermoelectric properties of gadolinium copper telluride, GdCuTe2, together with the doped compounds gadolinium samarium copper telluride, Gd1-xSmxCuTe2, and gadolinium dysprosium copper telluride, Gd1-xDyxCuTe2, with x = 0.02 and x = 0.05 were investigated. Upon doping, a decrease in thermal conductivity and...

We utilize the Shell Model Monte Carlo (SMMC) method to study the structure of rare earth nuclei. This work demonstrates the first systematic " full oscillator shell plus intruder " calculations in such heavy nuclei. Exact solutions of a pairing plus quadrupole hamiltonian are compared with mean field and SPA approximations in several Dysprosium isotopes from A = 152 − 162, including the odd ma...

The first order magnetic phase transition in polycrystalline sample of dysprosium (Dy) has been investigated in detail by dcresistance vs. temperature (R-T) measurements. Distinct signature of coexistence of two magnetically ordered phases (i.e. ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic), originating as a result of the metastable behavior associated with the first order phase transition (FOPT) is fou...