Effluents, from hydrometallurgy processes

Biosorption is a key technology for the benign recovery of diffuse elements from liquid effluents and hydrometallurgy processes. During the capture of metals via biosorption the reduction of the metal down to nanoparticles is commonly observed. One such example is the use of starch-derived carbonaceous mesoporous materials (Starbon ) for the selective adsorption and recovery of critical metals (Au , Pt and Pd ") from a mixture containing Earth-abundant elements (Ni ", Cu " and Zn ") with the... 

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