⚛️ Is the secret to circular rare earth recovery hidden in molecular motion?
🔗 Computationally derived structural insights into Rare Earth selectivity in lanmodulin and its variants. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.02.005
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A protein mines, sorts rare earths better than humans, paving way for green tech
Rare earth elements, like neodymium and dysprosium, are a critical component to almost all modern technologies, from smartphones to hard drives, but they are notoriously hard to separate from the Earth's crust and from one another.
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#engineered the
#sensor from a natural
#protein called
#lanmodulin, which binds rare earth
#elements with high selectivity and was discovered 5 years ago by some of the Penn State researchers involved in the present study.
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New biosensor reveals activity of elusive metal that’s essential for life
Researchers engineered the sensor from a natural protein called lanmodulin
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