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Rare earth metals play a critical role in the modern economy, with industries as diverse as petroleum refining and consumer electronics dependent on the special magnetic and chemical properties these components provide. Unfortunately, traditional extraction and refining techniques are both dangerous and extremely polluting.
That’s why Phoenix Tailings, a New England–based startup cofounded by MIT alums, has developed a clean and efficient new process that extracts rare metals such as neodymium, samarium, and dysprosium from mining waste known as tailings.
CODE: UN8CUZ7ELM507IXP
Read more about Phoenix Tailings on Slice of MIT: bit.ly/3RTNvtI
View without audio description: youtu.be/GhKZynP0AEQ
Rare earth metals play a critical role in the modern economy, with industries as diverse as petroleum refining and consumer electronics dependent on the special magnetic and chemical properties these components provide. Unfortunately, traditional extraction and refining techniques are both dangerous and extremely polluting.
That’s why Phoenix Tailings, a New England–based startup cofounded by MIT alums, has developed a clean and efficient new process that extracts rare metals such as neodymium, samarium, and dysprosium from mining waste known as tailings.
CODE: UN8CUZ7ELM507IXP
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Read more about Phoenix Tailings on Slice of MIT: https://bit.ly/3RTNvtI
View without audio description: https://youtu.be/GhKZynP0AEQ
Rare earth metals play a critical role in the modern economy, with industries as diverse as petroleum refining and consumer electronics dependent on the special magnetic and chemical properties these components provide. Unfortunately, traditional extraction and refining techniques are both dangerous and extremely polluting.
That’s why Phoenix Tailings, a New England–based startup cofounded by MIT alums, has developed a clean and efficient new process that extracts rare metals such as neodymium, samarium, and dysprosium from mining waste known as tailings.
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If you can’t stay at MIT forever, why not bring MIT with you?
Peter Krogen SM ’14, PhD ’16 and Ethan Perrin ’20 were so inspired by their experience in the MIT Electronics Research Society, better known as MITERS , that a couple years ago they decided to re-create it on the West Coast, where they live now.
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