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Eliad Silcoff
Chief Scientific Officer at OCALAB; PhD chemist with 25+ years in the chemical industry specializing in catalysis, materials science, and nanotechnology.
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Jun 19, 2026
The small metals that move big markets : PGM’s, Power and the race to use less
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12:49Eliad SilcoffGUEST
So as you said, one wonderful thing about PGMs and particularly platinum and palladium is that they tend to be very, very stable.
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12:55Eliad SilcoffGUEST
So in all applications, with the exception of automotive applications, they're very easy to recycle.
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13:01Eliad SilcoffGUEST
And I actually remember doing reactions with palladium during my second year of my undergraduate degree, where after we finished the reaction, we actually took all the leftover catalyst, put in a special little vial, and that vial was sent off to one of the many companies that recycles it, whether it be Hiraeus or BASF or whatever.
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13:19Eliad SilcoffGUEST
And it's quite easy to recycle and you can get it back at very, very, very high yields.
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13:27Eliad SilcoffGUEST
The reason I separated the PGMs using automotive are just because in some cases, the PGMs can be damaged or poisoned by the presence of sulfur in some types of gasoline.
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