Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems (AMEWS)

Director

Seth Darling

Lead Institution

Argonne National Laboratory

Class

2018-2022

Mission

To understand and design water-solid interfaces to enable future advances in materials for efficient water treatment.

Research Topics

catalysis (heterogeneous), electrocatalysis, defects, charge transport, separations, membranes, water, mesoscale science, materials and chemistry by design, mesostructured materials, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly)

Materials Studied

Materials: semiconductor, oxide, polymer, electrolytes, porous

Interfaces: organic/inorganic, inorganic/inorganic, liquid/solid

Nanostructured Materials: 2D, 3D

Experimental and Theoretical Methods

X-ray diffraction and scattering, electron microscopy, surface science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), mesoscale modeling, multiscale modeling, machine learning