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Molten-salt electrochemical separation platform

1.Molten-salt electrochemical separation platform for rare earth and critical metals from oxides, alloys, and complex feedstocks

2.Ionic membrane electrode assemblies enabling selective oxide-ion transport and decoupled cathodic metal reduction/anodic reactions

3.Carbon-free anodic oxygen evolution, eliminating CO2, CO, and CFC formation common to conventional carbon-anode systems

4.Thermodynamic-electrochemical coupling (TGA-DSC-MS / STA-MS) to quantify oxide dissolution, speciation, and separation windows

5.Applications to critical-materials recovery (end-of-life magnets, mixed oxides) and molten-salt chemistries relevant to nuclear energy system

Duan has received the US Army Early Career Award

(https://www.price.utah.edu/2024/09/20/chuancheng-duan-receives-army-early-career-program-award-for-research-on-fuel-cells)

Our lab has upgraded the roll-to-roll fuel cell and electrolyzer manufacturing system, which can be used for high-volume and large-scale cell fabrication

Duan has been selected as one of the finalists for the 7th ISSI Young Scientist Award. The final competition will be at SSI-24, which will be held in July 14-19, 2024 at London, UK

Fan Liu's paper entitled "Synergistic Effects of In-Situ Exsolved Ni–Ru Bimetallic Catalyst on High-Performance and Durable Direct-Methane Solid Oxide Fuel Cells" has been Published at Journal of the American Chemical Society and highlited on the cover. 

Celebrating our lab's first PhD graduate Dr. Di Chen!  Dr. Chen is going to join UCLA as a postdoc

 MRLSE's research was reported in Kansas State University’s flagship research magazine (read more)

Duan honored with young investigator award from The Electrochemical Society (read more)

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