Brief Description
RareTerra is developing a one-step environmentally friendly bio-process for selective rare-earth element (REE) extraction, separation, and purification that doesn't rely on harsh acids or high temperatures and pressures. RareTerra’s technology eliminates the costliest and most hazardous steps of the manufacturing process, and is compatible with complex, dilute, and waste REE sources. The company's proprietary process leverages the power of genetic and metabolic engineering to unlock the remarkable capacity of microbes to separate REEs from other metals and bioaccumulate them.
Timeline
- 2023. Company founded
Inventors
N. Cecilia Martinez Gomez, Nathan Michael Good, Alexa Morgan Zytnick, Elizabeth Skovran