Critical Mineral Separations: Opportunities for Membrane Materials and Processes to Advance Sustainable Economies and Secure Supplies

L Lair, JA Ouimet, M Dougher… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Sustainable energy solutions and electrification are driving increased demand for critical
minerals. Unfortunately, current mineral processing techniques are resource intensive, use …

Multi-material 3D printing of piezoelectric and triboelectric integrated nanogenerators with voxel structure

F Chen, Z An, Y Chen, Y Li, X Liu, N Chen, Y Ru… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Flexible and highly filled piezoelectric nanogenerators with excellent performance play an
indispensable role in portable electronic devices, while the bottlenecks are hard to improve …

Properties, applications, and prospects of carbon nanotubes in the construction industry

S Yang - Architecture, Structures and Construction, 2023 - Springer
Nanotechnology and nanomaterials have offered sustainable design options for the built
environment and enabled architects to design more flexible architectural forms. Carbon …

Cold Temperature Direct Air CO2 Capture with Amine-Loaded Metal–Organic Framework Monoliths

Y Wang, G Rim, MG Song, HE Holmes… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Zeolites, silica-supported amines, and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been
demonstrated as promising adsorbents for direct air CO2 capture (DAC), but the shaping …

Morphology map-guided identification of bijel ink for producing conductive porous structures

Y Wang, C Cipriani, CM Hsieh, H Cao, A Sarmah… - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
Manufacturing of composites consisting of polymers and electrically conductive fillers is
critical for producing wearable conductive materials. Here, we demonstrate the direct ink …

Facile synthesis of structured adsorbent with enhanced hydrophobicity and low energy consumption for CO2 capture from the air

J Wu, Y Chen, Y Xu, S Chen, H Lv, Z Gan, X Zhu… - Matter, 2024 - cell.com
Formulating materials into structured configurations is important to improve CO 2 capture
efficiency. Here, the hydrophobic polystyrene-block-polybutadiene-block-polystyrene (SBS) …

3D-Printed Porous Supramolecular Sorbents for Cobalt Recycling

KS Mason, SY Huang, SK Emslie… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electronic waste recycling is a recognized global challenge that requires new strategies to
bind and release critical materials selectively, such as cobalt present in lithium-ion batteries …

Pinching dynamics and extensional rheology of dense colloidal suspensions with depletion attractions

DD Soetrisno, CDV Martínez Narváez… - Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We study the extensional flow properties by characterizing the capillarity-driven pinching
dynamics of dense colloidal suspensions at a constant volume fraction ϕ= 0.40 with polymer …

Isolating the effects of gate layer permeability and sorbent density on the performance of solute-selective polymeric ion pumps

JA Ouimet, AW Dowling, WA Phillip - Molecular Systems Design & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The growing demand for solute selective separations necessitates the development of
materials and processes capable of separating species of similar charge and size …

Surface Complexation and Packed Bed Mass Transport Models Enable Adsorbent Design for Arsenate and Vanadate Removal

E Briese, K Niimi, A Hjelmstad… - ACS ES&T …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Co-occurrence of metal oxo-anions (eg, arsenate) in drinking water poses human health
risks. To understand and predict competition and breakthrough for individual or mixtures of …