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ReviewMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Towards Sustainable Bioleaching of Platinum Group Metals from Spent Automotive Catalysts.

Yeskalina Kuralay, Zahra Ilkhani, John Hardy, Luigi Capozzi, Farid Aiouache

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In one paragraph

Review in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yeskalina KuralayDepartment of Metallurgy and Mineral Processing, Satbayev University, Almaty 050013, Kazakhstan.ORCID 0000-0002-2804-7076
Zahra IlkhaniSchool of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK.ORCID 0009-0000-0708-7231
John HardySchool of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0655-2167
Luigi CapozziSchool of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3046-9876
Farid AiouacheSchool of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0216-6907

Funding

Bolashak scholarship schemeInnovate UK KTP012187
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spent automotive catalysts represent an important secondary resource for platinum group metals, offering environmental and economic advantages over primary mining. This review evaluates bioleaching-based recovery strategies of these metals as sustainable alternatives to conventional pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processing. The cyanogenic bioleaching using

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Acidithiobacillusbioleachingcyanogenic bacteriaplatinum group metalsshrinking core modelspent automotive catalysts

Identifiers

PMID42654649
PMCPMC13514571

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