Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Takaaki Hatanaka

Nobuhiro Ishida

Takao Tani

A method for identifying and separating a rare earth ion. The method includes bringing one or more rare earth ions into contact with a mineralization agent capable of mineralizing the rare earth ions, wherein the one or more rare earth ions are separated as rare earth minerals, based on a mineralization tendency of the mineralization agent with respect to a rare earth ion series.

Method for separation of rare earth ion

A binding agent is capable of binding to rare earth materials such as rare earths and inorganic compounds thereof. A rare earth material-binding agent includes a peptide capable of binding to a rare earth material including a rare earth and a rare earth inorganic compound.

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Nagakute, Japan

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