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
Partner Institutions
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Northwestern University
- University of Chicago
