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- The study introduces biogenic micromotors made from porous chalky tubes coated with Fe-Pt, designed for dual functions: creating metallic gold and quickly isolating it from reactions.
- Once placed in a reactive environment, these micromotors use bubble propulsion to efficiently separate high-purity gold particles (which are yellow) from the mixture.
- This innovative approach shows promise for sustainable metal recovery, extraction of micron-sized minerals, treatment of electronic waste, and separation of redox products.
Article Abstract
We report biogenic micromotor design consisting of porous chalky elongated tubes (∼60 μm length) coated with Fe-Pt for dual functionality i.e. metallic gold formation and rapid isolation. These autonomously propelled scavengers once introduced in the reaction environment, showed rapid bubble-propulsion followed by high-purity separation of the visually-distinguishable gold metal particles (yellow in colour) from the reaction mixture. The concept presented here has excellent potential towards environmentally sustainable metal recovery, micron-level metal/mineral particulate extraction, electronic waste treatment and similar redox product separation among others.
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