C. Liu
University of Chicago,
United States
Keywords: separation, solid, confinement, transport, energy barrier
Summary:
Achieving the net-zero emissions goal requires a significant increase in electricity production from renewable technologies, along with widespread electrification of the transportation sector. These urgent societal challenges create a substantial gap between manufacturing demand and production capacity, calling for innovative solutions to secure resource supplies. Solid-state materials with Angstrom-scale ion transport pathways provide a powerful platform for ion separation based on their solvated ion size and solid migration energy barriers. In this talk, I will introduce our group’s effort in manipulating the materials' structural features to dial the energy differences along the Angstrom-scale transport pathways of different ions for their separation.