Eco-friendly process drives rare earth recycling

A team of researchers from the University of Leuven revealed that trihexyl(tetradecyl)phosphonium chloride could be utilised as an environmentally friendly, sustainable hydrometallurgical method for separating transition metals such as copper, cobalt, iron, manganese and zinc from rare earths in neodymium–iron–boron or samarium–cobalt permanent magnets.

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