Materials for the Photoluminescence-Based Detection of Economically Critical Metals
Abstract
Critical metals, such as rare earth elements (REEs), cobalt, lithium, aluminum, nickel, and others, are essential to advanced technologies and renewable energy in particular. Widespread global adoption of renewable energy technologies has spurred dramatic demand increases for these metals; however, the global supply of these metals is highly monopolistic and conventional mining poses economic and environmental challenges. As a result, there is increasing interest in domestic production from alternative resources such as coal and its utilization byproducts. Slow and expensive characterization costs remain a significant barrier for domestic production. Here, luminescent sensing materials and platforms are presented that provide an alternative to the current state-of-the-art characterization methods; highly sensitive and selective sensing materials for cobalt, aluminum, and rare earth elements are presented, as well as compact, inexpensive platforms capable of analyzing signal from these materials for rapid characterization of critical metal content.
- Authors:
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- NETL
- NETL Site Support Contractor, National Energy Technology Laboratory
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- Research Org.:
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2320255
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Conference Name: #RSCPoster 2024 Location: Virtual Start Date: 3/5/2024 12:00:00 AM End Date: 3/6/2024 12:00:00 AM
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Crawford, Scott, Kim, Ki-Joong, Ellis, James, Diemler, Nathan, and Baltrus, John. Materials for the Photoluminescence-Based Detection of Economically Critical Metals. United States: N. p., 2024.
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Crawford, Scott, Kim, Ki-Joong, Ellis, James, Diemler, Nathan, & Baltrus, John. Materials for the Photoluminescence-Based Detection of Economically Critical Metals. United States.
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"Materials for the Photoluminescence-Based Detection of Economically Critical Metals". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2320255.
@article{osti_2320255,
title = {Materials for the Photoluminescence-Based Detection of Economically Critical Metals},
author = {Crawford, Scott and Kim, Ki-Joong and Ellis, James and Diemler, Nathan and Baltrus, John},
abstractNote = {Critical metals, such as rare earth elements (REEs), cobalt, lithium, aluminum, nickel, and others, are essential to advanced technologies and renewable energy in particular. Widespread global adoption of renewable energy technologies has spurred dramatic demand increases for these metals; however, the global supply of these metals is highly monopolistic and conventional mining poses economic and environmental challenges. As a result, there is increasing interest in domestic production from alternative resources such as coal and its utilization byproducts. Slow and expensive characterization costs remain a significant barrier for domestic production. Here, luminescent sensing materials and platforms are presented that provide an alternative to the current state-of-the-art characterization methods; highly sensitive and selective sensing materials for cobalt, aluminum, and rare earth elements are presented, as well as compact, inexpensive platforms capable of analyzing signal from these materials for rapid characterization of critical metal content.},
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