Rare earth elements are known as the industrial vitamins, playing an indispensable role in core strategic resources for high-tech fields like artificial intelligence, new energy, and national defense. They are also among the key raw materials with hi

On November 5th, the international academic journal Environmental Science and Technology published online a research progress made by the team of Zhu Jianxi, a researcher at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The re

The black-hair fern belongs to a special type of rare earth hyperaccumulator plants, which are like rare earth vacuum cleaners in the soil, efficiently absorbing and concentrating the rare earth elements dispersed in the environment. Studies show tha

"This process is actually a plant's self-protection mechanism. It's like plants 'packaging and sealing' toxic substances in the body, firmly locking rare earth ions that may harm cells into the mineral structure, and realizing the passivation of rare

Monazite is an important industrial rare earth ore, but natural monazite often coexists with radioactive uranium and thorium elements, which brings challenges to mining and application. While biological monazite formed under natural conditions of nor

It is said that people previously only knew that microorganisms and animals could 'create minerals' in their bodies, but the 'mineral manufacturing ability' of the plant kingdom has long been underestimated. The discovery of rare earth mineralization

This study not only reveals the mechanism of plant detoxifying and mineralizing rare earth elements, but also provides a new path for the sustainable utilization of rare earth resources in the future: by planting hyperaccumulator plants such as Cyrto