Extraction and Recycling of Transition Metals

Dear Colleagues,

Modern society relies on rare metals for various purposes. The term “rare metal” does not necessarily mean smallness of abundance in the Earth’s crust; most of the metal elements suffer from resource problems because of, for example, absence of a high-grade ore. The supply is anticipated to become more limited in the future with the growth of the global economy. Techniques to open utilization of wastes or low-grade ores could be a key to solving such resource problems and, hence, to realize a sustainably developing society. This Special Issue focuses on transition metals essential for modern society, not only for structural materials, but also for high-tech devices and functional materials, such as electrodes, catalysts, magnets, phosphors, pigments, batteries, and so on. This Special Issue will collect reviews and articles relating to the extraction and recycling of transition metals. Contributions that explore new resources and new processes, based on either wet or dry processes, are welcome. The improvement of the efficiencies and the yields of existing processes is also within the scope of this Special Issue, as well as the mechanisms of separation processes and functional devices and materials prepared from recycled resources. The objective of this Special Issue is to encourage communication among researchers broadly relating to the topic of extraction and recycling of transition metals.

Prof. Dr. Yuta Matsushima
Guest Editor

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• extraction
• recycling
• transition metal
• rare metal
• process
• resource
• waste
• low-grade ore
• material
• device