{"id":220525,"date":"2025-08-20T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/seaweed-could-unlock-new-sources-of-rare-minerals-for-evs-us-study"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:09:25","slug":"seaweed-could-unlock-new-sources-of-rare-minerals-for-evs-us-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/seaweed-could-unlock-new-sources-of-rare-minerals-for-evs-us-study","title":{"rendered":"Seaweed could unlock new sources of rare minerals for EVs: US study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/seaweed-could-unlock-new-sources-of-rare-minerals-for-evs-us-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US scientists tap seaweed for rare earths and metals used in EVs, electronics.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers in the United States discovered a new way to extract rare earth minerals. They focused on seaweed, which hosts rare earth minerals in their leaf-like tissues. After multiple efforts, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) research team successfully extracted critical mineral content from the seaweed biomass.<\/p>\n<p>They have been growing several species in the Sequim campus and investigating different methods of extracting minerals from seaweed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US scientists tap seaweed for rare earths and metals used in EVs, electronics. Researchers in the United States discovered a new way to extract rare earth minerals. They focused on seaweed, which hosts rare earth minerals in their leaf-like tissues. After multiple efforts, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) research team successfully extracted critical mineral [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}