Electrochemical technology presents low-energy mitigation pathways for desalination and carbon capture to address water scarcity and global warming.
The use of cation intercalation materials in Faradaic deionization (FDI) enables desalination with solid-state concentration swings, surpassing the limits of capacitive deionization.
Innovative embedded, micro-interdigitated flow fields have been developed to facilitate seawater-level desalination using Prussian blue analogs, expanding the applications to fuel cells and flow-based electrochemical devices.
The use of symmetric FDI architectures with proton intercalation materials also enables the low-energy direct-air capture of carbon dioxide by reversibly shifting pH within aqueous electrolyte.