Selective Gold Recovery from Homogenous Aqueous Solutions Containing Gold and Platinum Ions by Aromatic Amino Acid-Containing Peptides.

There is increasing interest in the development of noble metal separation/recovery processes, especially for applications to "urban mining". Common separation/recovery processes for noble metals use a solvent (liquid-liquid) extraction technique in hydrometallurgy. However, these processes are time-consuming and not environmentally friendly, because they use organic solvents for sequential metal ion extractions.