“…potential reserves (Survey, 2014;Ogata et al, 2015). Recently, the adsorption and recovery of REEs from aqueous solutions has become a significant issue owing to their significance (Voßenkaul et al, 2015;Alshameri et al, 2019), and many technologies are being developed to enrich REEs, including solvent extraction (Hou et al, 2013;Schirhagl, 2014), adsorption (Maranescu et al, 2019;Mondal et al, 2019;Yang et al, 2019), ion-exchange (Moldoveanu and Papangelakis, 2012;Page et al, 2019), and coprecipitation (Chatterjee et al, 2009). Among them, adsorption is considered one of the most promising methods for the removal of REEs due to its simple operation, easy separation, high efficiency, and reusability (Ogata et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2017a).…”