ArticleACS central science2021
Bridging Hydrometallurgy and Biochemistry: A Protein-Based Process for Recovery and Separation of Rare Earth Elements.
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- A review on bioprocesses for the recovery of rare earth elements and its challenges.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026Review
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- A Luminescence-Based Screening Platform for Lanthanide-Binding Peptides and Proteins.ACS chemical biology · 2025Article
- X-ray absorption spectroscopy of lanmodulin-derived peptides bound to rare earth elements.Journal of synchrotron radiation · 2025Article
- Advancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Rare Earth Element Recovery from Phosphogypsum.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
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- Engineered phages for selective adsorption of rare earth elements.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Controlling Selectivity of Surface Electro-Precipitation (SEP) in the Recovery of Rare Earth Elements (REE) from Aqueous Feedstocks.ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering · 2025Article
- The Role of Asparagine as a Gatekeeper Residue in the Selective Binding of Rare Earth Elements by Lanthanide-Binding Peptides.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- 18-membered macrocycle appended on resin for selective rare earth element extraction and separation.Communications chemistry · 2025Article
- Lanmodulin-Decorated Microbes for Efficient Lanthanide Recovery.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Article
- Computationally derived structural insights into Rare Earth selectivity in lanmodulin and its variants.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025Article
- Lanthanide binding peptide surfactants at air-aqueous interfaces for interfacial separation of rare earth elements.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
The extraction and subsequent separation of individual rare earth elements (REEs) from REE-bearing feedstocks represent a challenging yet essential task for the growth and sustainability of renewable energy technologies. As an important step toward overcoming the technical and environmental limitations of current REE processing methods, we demonstrate a biobased, all-aqueous REE extraction and separation scheme using the REE-selective lanmodulin protein. Lanmodulin was conjugated onto porous support materials using thiol-maleimide chemistry to enable tandem REE purification and separation under flow-through conditions. Immobilized lanmodulin maintains the attractive properties of the soluble protein, including remarkable REE selectivity, the ability to bind REEs at low pH, and high stability over numerous low-pH adsorption/desorption cycles. We further demonstrate the ability of immobilized lanmodulin to achieve high-purity separation of the clean-energy-critical REE pair Nd/Dy and to transform a low-grade leachate (0.043 mol % REEs) into separate heavy and light REE fractions (88 mol % purity of total REEs) in a single column run while using ∼90% of the column capacity. This ability to achieve, for the first time, tandem extraction and grouped separation of REEs from very complex aqueous feedstock solutions without requiring organic solvents establishes this lanmodulin-based approach as an important advance for sustainable hydrometallurgy.
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