Highly selective extraction and separation of rare earths(III) using bifunctional ionic liquid extractant

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1968-1975

  Guo, Lin ^a,b   Chen, Ji ^a   Shen, Lu ^a   Zhang, Jianping ^a   Zhang, Dongli ^a   Deng, Yuefeng ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b Inner Mongolia Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Bifunctional ionic liquid extractants; Extraction; Rare earths; Separation

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EXTRACTION; IONIC LIQUIDS; RARE EARTHS; SEPARATION;

BI-FUNCTIONAL IONIC LIQUIDS; EXTRACTANTS; N-HEPTANES; SELECTIVE EXTRACTION; SEPARATION FACTORS;

NITRATES;

EID: 84905576416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc400541b     Document Type: Article

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