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Following on from the MicroBaux project, we were privileged to obtain financing for a 3-year doctoral fellowship to continue this exciting research! This project, entitled BauxCLEAN, will expand the preliminary studies of MicroBAUX.

The extraction of aluminium from Bauxite requires a separation from other undesirable components such as iron by acid leaching and high temperature annealing, which leaves a non-exploited ‘red mud’ with both economic and environmental implications.