Reducing Hazardous Material and Environmental Impact Through Recycling of Scandium Nanomaterial Waste

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Department

Chemistry and Biochemistry

School

Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Abstract

The emerging use of scandium and the environmental impact from scandium-containing waste is a rising environmental and health concern. With the development of new materials in the last decade, toxicological studies on those new materials have also been increasing. An example of a process which employs scandium is the generation of metallic nitride fullerene nanomaterials. This process typically generates 99+% scandium waste, as only small amounts of scandium are actually incorporated into the target fullerene molecules. We demonstrate a safe method to recover the scandium content in the waste, reuse the recovered material and successfully demonstrate a comparable product distribution without detectable health and environmental concerns.

Publication Title

Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A- Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering

Volume

43

Issue

4

First Page

357

Last Page

360

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