TY - CHAP AU - Michael Aide ED - Michael Aide ED - Takahito Nakajima Y1 - 2020-06-17 PY - 2020 T1 - Review and Assessment of Organic and Inorganic Rare Earth Element Complexation in Soil, Surface Water, and Groundwater N2 - This book describes the recent evolution of rare earth elements and their mineralogy, both natural and synthetic analogues. Authors review and document rare earth element chemistry in the aqueous environment and the petrology of the rare earth element-bearing mineral Allanite. Synthetic rare earth minerals and their applications is a rapidly evolving discipline important to medicine, advanced digital technologies, and solid-state physics. Authors report on the synthesis of a macrocyclic gadolinium complex and also gadolinium complexes and their applications in medicine. Authors present compelling advances in gadolinium isotopes and oxides as substrates for induced excitation and luminescent material sciences. BT - Rare Earth Elements and Their Minerals SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.87033 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.87033 SN - 978-1-78984-741-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-18 ER -