Shaping the future with Rare Earth Elements – Model Experiments for “damage monitoring” with [Eu(DBM)4TEA] and for Recycling of Neodymium(III) Sulfate from Hard Disk Magnets

Markus Prechtl; Roman Schmidt

World Journal of Chemical Education. 2019, 7(2), 90-95
DOI: 10.12691/WJCE-7-2-8

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Shaping the future with Rare Earth Elements – Model Experiments for “damage monitoring” with [Eu(DBM)₄TEA] and for Recycling of Neodymium(III) Sulfate from Hard Disk Magnets

Markus Prechtl^1, and Roman Schmidt¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Education in Chemistry, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Pub. Date: April 11, 2019

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transformation of Knowledge in Chemistry into Didactical Experiments)

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Markus Prechtl and Roman Schmidt. Shaping the future with Rare Earth Elements – Model Experiments for “damage monitoring” with [Eu(DBM)₄TEA] and for Recycling of Neodymium(III) Sulfate from Hard Disk Magnets. World Journal of Chemical Education. 2019; 7(2):90-95. doi: 10.12691/WJCE-7-2-8

Abstract

Rare Earth Elements (REEs: Sc, Y, La–Lu) are found in numerous future-oriented applications such as in magnets for green technologies and in fluorescing materials. A shortage of resources is already forecast for diverse REEs, which suggests it may be necessary to recycle these elements and optimize technologies. Both aspects will be addressed in this paper. Model experiments with regards to damage monitoring using [Eu(DBM)₄TEA] and the recycling of neodymium(III) sulfate in hard disk magnets will also be presented. These are experiments for teachers and students who already have advanced experimental experience, such as trainees at vocational schools.

Keywords

Rare Earth Elements (REEs), material criticality, recycling, damage monitoring

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