Electrochemical methods for water purification, ion separations, and energy conversion

MA Alkhadra, X Su, ME Suss, H Tian, EN Guyes… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Agricultural development, extensive industrialization, and rapid growth of the global
population have inadvertently been accompanied by environmental pollution. Water …

Fluids and electrolytes under confinement in single-digit nanopores

NR Aluru, F Aydin, MZ Bazant, D Blankschtein… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Confined fluids and electrolyte solutions in nanopores exhibit rich and surprising physics
and chemistry that impact the mass transport and energy efficiency in many important …

Near-frictionless ion transport within triazine framework membranes

P Zuo, C Ye, Z Jiao, J Luo, J Fang, US Schubert… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The enhancement of separation processes and electrochemical technologies such as water
electrolysers,, fuel cells,, redox flow batteries, and ion-capture electrodialysis depends on …

Fabrication of desalination membranes by interfacial polymerization: history, current efforts, and future directions

X Lu, M Elimelech - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Membrane desalination is a promising technology for addressing the global challenge of
water scarcity by augmenting fresh water supply. Continuous progress in this technology …

Two-dimensional MXene membranes with biomimetic sub-nanochannels for enhanced cation sieving

R Xu, Y Kang, W Zhang, B Pan, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Membranes with high ion permeability and selectivity are of considerable interest for
sustainable water treatment, resource extraction and energy storage. Herein, inspired by K+ …

A Lamellar MXene (Ti3C2Tx)/PSS Composite Membrane for Fast and Selective Lithium‐Ion Separation

Z Lu, Y Wu, L Ding, Y Wei, H Wang - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract A two‐dimensional (2D) laminar membrane with Li+ selective transport channels is
obtained by stacking MXene nanosheets with the introduction of poly (sodium 4‐styrene …

Lithium concentration from salt-lake brine by Donnan-enhanced nanofiltration

ZH Foo, D Rehman, AT Bouma… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Membranes offer a scalable and cost-effective approach to ion separations for lithium
recovery. In the case of salt-lake brines, however, the high feed salinity and low pH of the …

Enhanced Polysulfide Conversion with Highly Conductive and Electrocatalytic Iodine‐Doped Bismuth Selenide Nanosheets in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

M Li, D Yang, JJ Biendicho, X Han… - Advanced functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The shuttling behavior and sluggish conversion kinetics of intermediate lithium polysulfides
(LiPS) represent the main obstacles to the practical application of lithium–sulfur batteries …

Nanofiltration membrane with crown ether as exclusive Li+ transport channels achieving efficient extraction of lithium from salt lake brine

H Li, Y Wang, T Li, XK Ren, J Wang, Z Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lithium extraction from salt lake brines with high Mg 2+/Li+ ratios represents an effective
alternative for tackling the scarcity of lithium resources. In this work, nanofiltration (NF) …

Ultrafast rectifying counter-directional transport of proton and metal ions in metal-organic framework–based nanochannels

J Lu, H Xu, H Yu, X Hu, J Xia, Y Zhu, F Wang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Bioinspired control of ion transport at the subnanoscale has become a major focus in the
fields of nanofluidics and membrane separation. It is fundamentally important to achieve …