Development of industrial extractants into functional ionic liquids for environmentally friendly rare earth separation

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1910-1917

  Sun, Xiaoqi ^a,b   Waters, Kristian E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Acidic extractant; Ionic liquids; Rare earth elements; Saponification; Separation

Indexed keywords

HYDROLYSIS; INDUSTRY; IONIC LIQUIDS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SAPONIFICATION;

BI-FUNCTIONAL IONIC LIQUIDS; CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY; DI(2-ETHYLHEXYL)PHOSPHATE; EXTRACTANTS; EXTRACTION PROTOCOLS; FUNCTIONAL IONIC LIQUIDS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REES); RARE EARTH SEPARATION;

SEPARATION;

EID: 84903954070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc500255n     Document Type: Conference Paper

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