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 …

Recent advances in wastewater treatment using semiconductor photocatalysts

J Hong, KH Cho, V Presser, X Su - Current Opinion in Green and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Semiconductor materials demonstrate promising potential for wastewater treatment due to
their photocatalytic properties, which can be controlled through the design of the bandgap …

Coupling nitrate capture with ammonia production through bifunctional redox-electrodes

K Kim, A Zagalskaya, JL Ng, J Hong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nitrate is a ubiquitous aqueous pollutant from agricultural and industrial activities. At the
same time, conversion of nitrate to ammonia provides an attractive solution for the coupled …

Redox-Active Polymers as Robust Electron-Shuttle Co-Catalysts for Fast Fe3+/Fe2+ Circulation and Green Fenton Oxidation

H Zhou, J Peng, X Duan, H Yin, B Huang… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Accelerating the rate-limiting Fe3+/Fe2+ circulation in Fenton reactions through the addition
of reducing agents (or co-catalysts) stands out as one of the most promising technologies for …

Imparting selective fluorophilic interactions in redox copolymers for the electrochemically mediated capture of short-chain perfluoroalkyl substances

A Román Santiago, S Yin, J Elbert, J Lee… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
With increasing regulations on per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) across the world,
understanding the molecular level interactions that drive their binding by functional …

Investigating the electrochemically driven capture and release of long-chain PFAS by redox metallopolymer sorbents

P Baldaguez Medina, V Ardila Contreras… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The remediation of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is an urgent challenge due to their
prevalence and persistence in the environment. Electrosorption is a promising approach for …

Electrochemical recycling of homogeneous catalysts

S Cotty, J Jeon, J Elbert, VS Jeyaraj, AV Mironenko… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Homogeneous catalysts have rapid kinetics and keen reaction selectivity. However, their
widespread use for industrial catalysis has remained limited because of challenges in …

Electrochemical approaches for selective recovery of critical elements in hydrometallurgical processes of complex feedstocks

K Kim, R Candeago, G Rim, D Raymond, AHA Park… - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Critical minerals are essential for the ever-increasing urban and industrial activities in
modern society. The shift to cost-efficient and ecofriendly urban mining can be an avenue to …

Electrochemical remediation of perfluoroalkyl substances from water

AR Santiago, PB Medina, X Su - Electrochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Organic anthropogenic pollutants such as per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS)
present a severe threat to bodies of water and neighboring ecosystems, due to their toxicity …

Electrically controlled adsorptive membranes with tunable affinity for selective chromium (VI) separation from water

L Liu, X An, Y Cui, Q Tang, H Lan, H Liu… - … Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ionic contaminants such as Cr (VI) pose a challenge for water purification using membrane-
based processes. However, existing membranes have low permeability and selectivity for Cr …