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Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications and defense systems. Julie Michelle Klinger draws attention to the fact that the rare earths we rely on most are as common as copper or lead, and this means the implications of their extraction are global. Klinger excavates the rich historical origins and ongoing ramifications of the quest to mine rare earths in ever more impossible places. Klinger writes about the devastating damage to lives and the environment caused by the exploitation of rare earths. She demonstrates in human terms how scarcity myths have been conscripted into diverse geopolitical campaigns that use rare earth mining as a pretext to capture spaces that have historically fallen beyond the grasp of centralized power. These include legally and logistically forbidding locations in the Amazon, Greenland, and Afghanistan, and on the Moon. Drawing on ethnographic, archival, and interview data gathered in local languages and offering possible solutions to the problems it documents, this book examines the production of the rare earth frontier as a place, a concept, and a zone of contestation, sacrifice, and transformation.

Lunar mining. --- Rare earth metals --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Mining, Lunar --- Mining of lunar resources --- Space mining --- Lanthanide series --- Lanthanides --- Lanthanoid series --- Lanthanons --- Rare earth elements --- Nonferrous metals

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Rare earth metals. --- Light emitting diodes. --- Secondary ion mass spectrometry. --- SIMS (Spectrum analysis) --- Mass spectrometry --- LEDs (Light emitting diodes) --- Diodes, Semiconductor --- Electroluminescent devices --- LED lamps --- Light-emitting electrochemical cells --- Lanthanide series --- Lanthanides --- Lanthanoid series --- Lanthanons --- Rare earth elements --- Nonferrous metals

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A natural resource strategist investigates the growing global demand for rare metals and what it means to the environment and our future Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate of our planet depend on them. These metals have become the building blocks of modern society; their properties are now essential for nearly all our electronic, military, and "green" technologies. But their growing use is not without environmental, economic, and geopolitical consequences. Abraham traces these elements' hidden paths from mines to our living rooms, from the remote hills of China to the frozen Gulf of Finland, providing vivid accounts of those who produce, trade, and rely on rare metals. He argues that these materials are increasingly playing a significant role in global affairs, conferring strength to countries and companies that can ensure sustainable supplies. Just as oil, iron, and bronze revolutionized previous eras, so too will these metals. The challenges this book reveals, and the plans it proposes, make it essential reading for our rare metal age.

Rare earth metals. --- Rare earth industry. --- Rare earths industry --- Nonferrous metal industries --- Lanthanide series --- Lanthanides --- Lanthanoid series --- Lanthanons --- Rare earth elements --- Nonferrous metals --- Rare earth industry --- Rare earth metals --- E-books --- S10/0523 --- S10/0500 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Power supply (electricity, mining, oil) and computing industry --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Industries and industrialization: general and before 1911 (economic aspects come here)

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Most books discuss general and broad topics regarding molecular imagings. However, Ultrasmall Lanthanide Oxide Nanoparticles for Biomedical Imaging and Therapy, will mainly focus on lanthanide oxide nanoparticles for molecular imaging and therapeutics. Multi-modal imaging capabilities will discussed, along with up-converting FI by using lanthanide oxide nanoparticles. The synthesis will cover polyol synthesis of lanthanide oxide nanoparticles, Surface coatings with biocompatible and hydrophilic ligands will be discussed and TEM images and dynamic light scattering (DLS) patterns will be provid

Metals, Rare Earth --- Molecular Probe Techniques --- Nanostructures --- Anions --- Oxygen Compounds --- Elements --- Diagnostic Imaging --- Ions --- Metals --- Inorganic Chemicals --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Investigative Techniques --- Manufactured Materials --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Diagnosis --- Electrolytes --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Lanthanoid Series Elements --- Molecular Imaging --- Oxides --- Nanoparticles --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Radiology, MRI, Ultrasonography & Medical Physics --- Diagnostic imaging. --- Nanoparticles. --- Imaging systems in medicine. --- Medical imaging systems --- Medical instruments and apparatus --- Nano-particles --- NPs (Nanoparticles) --- Nanostructured materials --- Particles --- Clinical imaging --- Imaging, Diagnostic --- Medical diagnostic imaging --- Medical imaging --- Noninvasive medical imaging --- Diagnosis, Noninvasive --- Imaging systems in medicine --- Nanoscale particles