Congrats to Nayeong on her recently published paper on a scalable, electrified adsorbent platform for lithium recovery using redox-active crown ether copolymers
The study, published in ACS Energy Letters and highlighted by the News Bureau, presents a molecular design that integrates a lithium-selective crown ether with a redox-active moiety into a single copolymer, enabling reversible lithium recovery. The redox-active copolymer platform enables acid-free regeneration, faster uptake kinetics, and simpler, lower-energy operation than ion-sieve, adsorption, and membrane-based methods, positioning it as a scalable and sustainable approach for lithium separation.