Understanding Rare Earth Element Adsorption Theoretical exploration of solvation phenomena of bare rare-earth (RE) cations in room-temperature ionic-liquid (RTIL) to visualize the solvation mechanism of RE cations in RTIL at the molecular level.
Batch Scale Production of 3D Printed Extraction Sorbents A cost-effective modification to a desktop resin 3D printer was demonstrated to produce polymeric ionic liquid (PIL) extraction devices.
Mechanistic Understanding of Rare-earth Element (REE) Capture MCM-22 synthesis with varying Si:Al ratios is a model aluminosilicate for ytterbium (Yb) capture and also serves as a synthetic clay mimic to obtain in-depth mechanistic understanding of the capture.
Structure of Active Sites in Silica-Alumina Revealed Scientists show that the catalytic active sites in silica-alumina are bridging and mirror those found in zeolites
Reshaping of nanocrystals: Failure of classical nucleation theory Development of an appropriate theory for the stochastic reshaping processes based on the exact mater equations for this process.
Determining the Distributions of Surface Sites in Motion A method was established to study the geometry and arrangement of dynamic surface species.
Sensitive NMR Method Reveals Motions of Surface Sites A new, high-sensitivity, approach for studying molecular dynamics is reported, enabling the study of surface sites.
Software Enables Surface Structure Determination An open-source program was released that enables the 3D structure determination of surface sites.
17O NMR Facilitates Structural Studies of Catalytic Sites A new strategy generalized the high-resolution structural characterization of oxide-supported species.
Determining the Distributions of Surface Sites in Motion A method was established to study the geometry and arrangement of dynamic surface species.