SDSU-led project to design bacteria that extract rare earth elements in DARPA EMBER project
Green Car Congress
APRIL 11, 2023
—principal investigator Marina Kalyuzhnaya To do this, the researchers will tap into the natural propensity of methane-consuming bacteria living in extreme conditions to capture REEs from the environment. REEs are relatively abundant in mine tailings, the waste products of some metal ores, such as aluminum.
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