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Understanding what complex chemical measurements reveal about materials and reactions can take weeks or months of analysis. But now, an AI-powered platform developed by researchers at the Department ...

Using a material derived from plants, researchers at Penn State have devised a renewable and sustainable approach to separating and recovering dysprosium, a heavy rare earth element used in ...

A new study reports a highly effective and sustainable material for capturing rare earth elements from water, offering a ...

A team of scientists developed a new machine learning model for discovering critical-element-free permanent magnet materials based on the predicted Curie temperature of new material combinations. A ...

In a significant breakthrough for the scientific community, a new element has been confirmed on the periodic table. This discovery holds potential implications for a wide range of scientific fields, ...