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AZoMining speaks with James Tour from Rice University about his team's exciting method that has the very real potential to recover valuable REE from three types of waste; electronic waste, coal fly ash and bauxite residue.

New research revealed that controlled exfoliation of highly crystalline molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) using water as a solvent is highly beneficial for industrial optoelectronic applications.

A safe food-grade solvent has been employed to extract extremely sought rare-earth metals from coal ash without harming the environment and simultaneously increasing a crucial national resource.