New sensor detects rare metals used in smartphones
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 08:51
in Physics & Chemistry
A more efficient and cost-effective way to detect lanthanides, the rare earth metals used in smartphones and other technologies, could be possible with a new protein-based sensor that changes its fluorescence when it binds to these metals. A team of researchers from Penn State developed the sensor from a protein they recently described and subsequently used it […]