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Sorbent are the workhorses of most contemporary separation processes. Crystalline sorbents boast descript structures that facilitate in silico study. Their diversity is matched by their varied applications. At the forefront of their currently researched ap ...

EPFL2025

A systemic study for decarbonizing secondary aluminium production via waste heat recovery, carbon management and renewable energy integration

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Secondary aluminium production relies on natural gas to transform both primary and recycled aluminium into semi-fabricated products, leading to significant atmospheric emissions, energy losses, and resource consumption. Despite the potential for waste heat ...

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Low-Power Tunable Micro-Plasma Devices for Efficient and Scalable CO2 Conversion

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EPFL2025

Precious Metals recovery using novel metal-organic framework (MOF)

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Gold plays a dominant role in our modern society. Initially used in coinage and jewelry, it has become an essential metal for the electronics industries. Today, more gold is consumed than mined from virgin ores. Therefore, gold recycling methods have becom ...

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Coordination polymers: from uranium(IV) and thorium(IV) to non-uranyl U(V) and U(VI)

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This thesis explores the diverse chemistry of thorium and uranium coordination polymers, focusing on actinides in +4 and +5 oxidation states, and their reactivity with various ligands. While uranium predominantly exists as the uranyl cation [UO2]2+ in the ...

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Framework to engineer existing bridges for sustainability, validated by applications

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A framework to engineer existing structures, in particular bridges, and novel engineering methods and technologies are presented to extend the service duration of existing bridges while meeting the requirements of modern use. Accurate determination of brid ...

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Classical density functional theory as a fast and accurate method for adsorption property prediction of porous materials

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Physical adsorption is crucial in many industrial processes, prompting researchers to develop new materials for energy-efficient processes. Porous adsorbents are particularly promising due to their design flexibility, and computational screening has accele ...

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Topological defect-structured hydrogel membranes for high-efficiency permeation and selective separation

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Biomass-derived hydrogel membranes that derived from natural polymers exhibit excellent anti-fouling properties, environmental sustainability, and molecular/ionic separation performance. However, their applications are significantly hindered by poor mechan ...

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Molecular simulation on two-dimensional nanoporous material for energy-efficient separation

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The energy-consumption by the chemical and petrochemical industry in the European Union (EU) accounts for about quarter of its energy footprint. Approximately half of this energy goes toward chemical separation, currently dominated by thermally-driven pro ...

EPFL2023

Towards ultrathin metal-organic frameworks membranes for high-performance separation

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Heng-Yu Chi, Qi Liu, Shuqing Song, Ranadip Goswami

Research on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) based membranes has gained a lot of attention in the last decade thanks to the unique and highly versatile chemistry of MOFs, which allows one to synthesize a variety of structural dimensions, topologies, pore si ...

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Fabrication of ZIF-8 membranes by direct assembly of nanosheets from bottom-up synthesis growth solution

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Heng-Yu Chi, Xuekui Duan

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) host intrinsically porous structure and rich structural and chemical features. Several MOFs with pore aperture comparable to the size of gas molecules have attracted interest to form the selective layer of membranes. Synthes ...

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Crystal, defect, and morphology engineering of porous two-dimensional materials for ionic separation

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Ordered two-dimensional (2D) materials hosting Å-scale pores are highly promising for enabling challenging separation, thanks to well-defined pore geometry resulting in tight confinement of ions when hosted inside the pore. In addition, the 2D nature of th ...

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Functionalized Å-scale Pores in Graphene for Carbon Capture

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Single-layer graphene, hosting a high density of functionalized molecular-sieving atom-thick pores, is considered to be an excellent material for gas separation membranes. These functionalized atom-thick pores enable the shortest transport pathway across t ...

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Unit-cell-thick zeolitic imidazolate framework films for membrane application

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Heng-Yu Chi, Shaoxian Li, Qi Liu, Deepu Joseph Babu, Shuqing Song, Jian Hao

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are a subset of metal-organic frameworks with more than 200 characterized crystalline and amorphous networks made of divalent transition metal centres (for example, Zn2+ and Co2+) linked by imidazolate linkers. ZIF th ...

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Inverse design of metal-organic frameworks for direct air capture of CO2via deep reinforcement learning

Berend Smit, Sauradeep Majumdar, Xiaoqi Zhang

The combination of several interesting characteristics makes metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) a highly sought-after class of nanomaterials for a broad range of applications like gas storage and separation, catalysis, drug delivery, and so on. However, the e ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

A novel interfacial polymerization assisted phase inversion process for the facile fabrication of ion-selective nanofiltration membranes

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Interfacial polymerization (IP) and non-solvent induced phase inversion (NIPS) are the two most commonly used mainstream technologies to fabricate separation membranes. Taking their advantages, we developed a simple, facile and scalable method to integrate ...

Elsevier Science Sa2023

Influence of micro-patterned support properties and interfacial polymerization conditions on performance of patterned thin-film composite membranes

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Patterned membranes prepared via spray-modified non -solvent induced phase separation (s-NIPS) have successfully shown enhanced fluxes and better fouling control, thanks to the increased surface area and high fluid shear at the membrane/feed interface. The ...

Elsevier2024

Micro- or nanostructured optical element

Niels Quack, Dorian Giraud Herle

A micro- or nanostructured optical element (1) is proposed comprising: a membrane (3) with an array of holes (5), the membrane (3) comprising a membrane light wave facing surface; an array of pillars (7) sized and shaped such that a respective pillar (7) i ...

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Advances in polymer-based nanocomposite membranes for water remediation: Preparation methods, critical issues and mechanisms

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Membrane technology is a growing tool for contaminants removal from polluted water. Although various types of polymeric membranes have been developed for water remediation, the common drawbacks like fouling, hydrophobicity and low mechanical strength are y ...

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From Surfactants to 3D Printing: How Ion-Chelator Pair Interactions Affect the Mechanical Properties of Bioinspired Materials

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The remarkable adaptability observed in marine ecosystems has often inspired researchers when developing new soft materials. The research undertaken in this thesis explores how ion chelator pair interactions influence the mechanical properties of bioinspir ...

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