• Resources Recycling
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.74-83
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• 2012

Rare earth metals have been made from rare earth compounds which were prepared from rare earth ore concentrates through successive processes such as leaching(i.e. extraction of rare earth elements to liquid media), separation, purification, precipitation. Here, process for treating monazite and bastnasite ore concentrates were briefly reviewed, and metallothermic reduction and fused salt electrolysis methods were introduced as the extraction technologies for rare earth metals.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.315-326
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• 1996

The electronic structures of 3d and 4d core-levels of rare-earth atoms in the insulating rare-earth (Sm, Eu, Gd, and Tb) compounds were studied with x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS). It is shown that the intrinsic satellite structure due to the hybridization disappears for chemically stable-earth trivalent heavy rare-earth insulating compounds as the hybridization between f electrons of rare-earth atoms and p electrons of anion atoms decreases due to the lanthanide contraction. Eu atoms at the surface of the stable insulating trivalent Eu compounds are found to be divalent. The satellite peak of Eu 3d core-level spectra at about 10eV higher binding energy side relative the main peak comes from the multiplet structures of $\underline{3d}4f^6$ configuration. The satellite structure appearing at about 15 eV higher binding energy side relative to the main peak in all insulating rare-earth compounds is due to an energy loss process of creating a plasmon.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.6-11
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• 1991

In order to investigate electronic and magnetic properties of permanent magnets, we have performed self-consistent electronic structure calculations on compounds of rare-earth and transition metals, such as $SmCo_{5},\;NdB_{6},\;NdFe_{5},\;NdFe_{4}B$. Employing the local density LMTO(linearized muffin tin orbital) band method, we have obtained the ground state parameters, such as band structures, density of states, Stoner parameters, and magnetic moments. We have also investigated interactions between d,f-electrons of Nd, Sm rare-earths and d-electrons of Fe, Co transition metals, and the s,p electrons of boron and explored effects of such interactions on the bonding mechanism and the electronic and magnetic structures in these rare-earth compounds.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.27-35
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• 2010

Rare earth alloys and compounds are the raw materials for the manufacture of advanced materials. Although domestic monazite ores have been found, there are some difficulties in recovering rare earth from these ores. Rare earth ores are found in few countries and these countries put an embargo on the export of rare earth ores for the protection of their industry. We gathered some information on the hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical processes to recover rare earths from bastnasite, monazite, and xenotime which consist of 95% of the total rare earth ores. Since rare earth with the purity more than 6N is needed for use in advanced materials, some separation methods such as fractional crystallization, precipitation, ion exchange, and solvent extraction were introduced.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.193-199
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• 1992

희토류 영구자석, $Nd_2Fe_{14}B$ 화합물에 대한 자체충족적 국재밀도함수근사 전자 구조 계산을 수행하여 이 물질의 전자기적 물성을 연구하였다. LMTO(Linearized Muffin-Tin Orbital)에너지 띠 방법을 사용하여 상자성, 강자성상에서 구한 $Nd_2Fe_{14}B$ 화합물의 에너지 띠구조를 토대로 하여 자성을 포함한 제반 물성, 즉 희토류금속과 천이금속의 결합(bonding)효과, 전기적, 자기적 구조등을 고찰하였다. Boron 원자의 역학은 근접 Fe 원자와의 혼합 상호작용을 통하여 Fe의 원자의 자기모멘트를 많이 줄이는 효과를 주며 또한 구조 안정성에 기여한다는 결과를 얻었다. 강자성상에서의 Fe 원자들의 평균 자기모멘트는 약 2.15 ${\mu}B$로 계산되었는데 이중 Boron 원자로 부터 가장 멀리 떨어져 있으며 12개의 Fe 원자들로 둘러싸인 Fe(j2-site)원자가 가장 큰 값(2.7 ${\mu}B$)의 자기모멘트를 갖고 Boron 원자와의 혼합 상호작용이 가장 큰 Fe(e-site)원자가 가장 작은 값(1.9 ${\mu}B$)의 자기모멘트를 갖는다.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.811-815
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• 1995

회토류계 영구자석은 종래의 Ferrite계나 Alnico계와 비교해서 대단히 강하여, 전기전자부품의 소형화에 크게 기여하고 있다. 최근에는, 전자기기산업 이외의 분야에 있어서도 그의 응용이 확대되어가고 있는 추세로 자성재료의 생산액은 매년 증가하고 있다. 회토류계 영구자석재료의 연구는 1960년대에 시작되어 Sm $Co_{5}$, Sm$_{2}$ $Co_{17}$ 화합물의 등장을 거쳐 현재는 1982년데 Sagawa 및 Croat가 독자적으로 발견한 Nd$_{2}$ Fe$_{14}$B 자석이 주류로 되고 있다. 그렇지만 이 화합물에는 다른 영구자석에 비하여 큐리온도가 낮은 결점이 있어서, 아직도 새로운 화합물의 탐색이 계속되고 있다. 그 중에서도, 1990년대에 Coey에 의해서 최초로 학회지에 보고되어진 Sm$_{2}$Fe$_{17}$N$_{x}$는, Nd$_{2}$Fe$_{14}$B와 같은 정도의 이론 최대에너지급, Sm $Co_{5}$에 대등한 거대한 이방성자장, 750K에 달하는 큐리온도등의 우수한 성질을 갖고 있어 Nd$_{2}$Fe$_{14}$B를 극복하는 자성재료로서 큰 기대가 되어진다. 되어진다.진다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.179-179
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• 1999

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.483-489
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• 2006

The behavior of rare earth compounds such as $La_{2}O_{3}$, $CeO_{2}$, and $Ca(OH)_{2}$ on the removal of fluoride and heavy metals in the steel wastewater has been investigated. The removal mechanism of fluoride by rare earth elements has been known to be the formation of insoluble compounds between $F^{-}$ and cations such as $La^{3+}$ and $Ce^{4+}$ produced by the dissociation of rare earth compounds (To reduce the running cost of the fluoride wastewater treatment facility, their fluoride removal efficiencies were compared with those of inexpensive rare earth minerals such as natural lanthanide and cerium compound used as a glass polishing agent). All of the rare earth oxides used in this study showed a higher removal efficiency of fluoride than $Ca(OH)_{2}$ in the wastewater. In the case of artificial HF solution, the removal efficiency of fluoride showed in the order: $CeO_{2}$-mineral < $CeO_{2}$ < $Ca(OH)_{2}$ < $La_{2}O_{3}$-mineral < $La_{2}O_{3}$. However, the removal efficiency of fluoride in the wastewater increased in the following order: $Ca(OH)_{2}$ < $CeO_{2}$ mineral < $CeO_{2}$ < $La_{2}O_{3}$ mineral < $La_{2}O_{3}$. All agents showed high efficiencies for the removal of Mn and total Cr in the rare earth compounds. In the case of $Ca(OH)_{2}$, fluoride removal decreased with increasing pH while. However, the rare earth compounds showed a higher fluoride removal in higher pH condition, the optimum pH condition seemed to be around 7 considering both water quality and fluoride removal. Under the pH 7 condition, the $Ca(OH)_{2}$ was superior to rare earth compounds in Mn removal and the lanthanide was superior to others in total Cr removal.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 1993

Electronic and magnetic proper tis of the rare-earth transition metal compound, $LaCo_{13}$, are investigated by performing self-consistent local density functional LMTO (linearized muffin-tin orbital) band structure calculations for both paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases of $LaCo_{13}$. The calculated magnetic moments for the two types of Co atoms, Co I and Co II, are 1.34 and $1.65{\mu}_{B}$, respectively. The average magnetic moment of Co atoms in the ferromagnetic phase of $LaCo_{13}$ is estimated to be $1.60{\mu}_{B}$, which is in fairly good agreement with the experimental values, $1.56~1.68{\mu}_{B}$.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.465-469
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• 2009

Characteristics of oxidation reaction of four lanthanide chlorides(Ce, Nd, Pr and $EuCl_3$) in a oxygen-eutectic(LiCl-KCl) salt bubble column was investigated. From the results obtained from the thermochemical calculations by HSC chemistry software, the most stable lanthanide compounds in the oxygen-used rare earth chlorides system were oxychlorides(EuOCl, NdOCl, PrOCl) and oxides($CeO_2$, $PrO_2$), which coincide well with results of the Gibbs free energy of the reaction. In this study, similar to the thermochemical results, regardless of the sparging time and molten salt temperature, oxychlorides for Eu, Nd and Pr and oxides for Ce and Pr were formed as a precipitant by a reaction with oxygen. The structure of the rare earth precipitates was divided into two shapes : small cubic(oxide) and large tetragonal (oxychloride) structures. The conversion efficiencies of the lanthanide elements to their molten salt-insoluble precipitates(or compound) were increased with the sparging time and temperature, and Ce showed the best reactivity. In the conditions of $650^{\circ}C$ of the molten salt temperature and 420 min of the sparging time, the conversion efficiencies were over 99% for all the investigated lanthanide chlorides.