New Security Beat quotes Isabel Barton

Associate professor of MGE Isabel Barton was quoted by New Security Beat in an article by Nayan Seth titled "Mine the Tech Gap: Why China's Rare Earth Dominance Persists."

The story chronicles China's supremacy in rare earth resources and how it relates to the trade war with the United States.

Seth quoted Barton to describe the complex processing of rare earths.

“All of them behave the same way, with very minor differences in chemistry. That means they bond with the same things under the same conditions, and they’re not going to separate from each other readily,” explained Barton.