The extraction-separation of alkali, alkaline earth, and rare earth metal ions could be improved by using macrocyclic ligands as ion size selective masking reagents. By adding a macrocyclic ligand to the aqueous phase of a conventional chelate extraction system, the extraction of metal ions with larger ionic radii was shifted to a higher pH region. Consequently, the separation among the metal i...

THE MINING REPORT Luisa Moreno, managing partner and analyst with Toronto-based Tahuti Global, says there are many things investors must pay attention to when it comes to critical metals projects, but nothing should trump metallurgy. That's because no two deposits are precisely the same, and having a clear understanding of how to economically recover those metals and get them into end-users' ha...

We present a microscopic theory of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in metallic multiband ferromagnets, which accounts for all scattering-independent contributions, i.e., both the intrinsic and the so-called side jump. For a model of Gaussian disorder, the AHE is expressed solely in terms of the material's electronic band structure. Our theory handles systematically the interband-scattering cohe...

The catalytic effect of mineral components (K, Ca, Mg and Na), after pre-treatment by water leaching adding NaCl, was evaluated in fast pyrolysis with the biomass four types agricultural waste (olive pomace, nutshell, almond shell, pistachio shell). Water proved to be effective at reducing content raw materials, especially terms removing K. As a consequence, there lower decarboxylation activity...

We report on the formation of mixed alkali-alkaline earth molecules (LiCa) on helium nanodroplets and present a comprehensive experimental and theoretical study of the ground and excited states of LiCa. Resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization time-of-flight (REMPI-TOF) spectroscopy and laser induced fluorescence (LIF) spectroscopy were used for the experimental investigation of LiCa from 1500...