How rare earth elements can be upcycled from magnets

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Technology that enables the recovery of rare earth elements such as neodymium from magnets is being developed in the NEO-CYCLE project in Germany with researchers from the Fraunhofer IKTS and TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Such magnets are used, among other things, in electric vehicles and wind…