Work toward a cleaner way to purify critical metals

Credit: Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories geochemist Anastasia Ilgen works on a vapor sorption analyzer used for characterizing the chemistry of porous solids such as metal-organic frameworks. Ilgen and her team designed MOFs for selectively purifying rare-earth elements.

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Credit: Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories intern Kadie Marie Mei Sanchez works on a mass spectrometer used for quantifying the concentration of metals, such as the rare-earth elements separated by the tailored MOFs.

« Work toward a cleaner way to purify critical metals

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