Electrochemical Separations Toward Sustainability: Analytical Techniques and Emerging Applications (Invited Talks)

Electrochemical separations have seen rapid advancements in recent years as a means to solve current and emerging sustainability challenges. The use of new electrochemistry principles, material designs, and system architectures collectively plays a critical role in efficient and selective separations for, but not limited to, water desalination, resource recovery, and CO2 capture. Many of these approaches are multidisciplinary in nature and thus employ analytical techniques (electrochemical measurements, material characterizations, water quality evaluations, etc.) from several different fields. While effective in elucidating fundamental mechanisms and characterizing performance metrics, analytical tools and their underlying principles are often specialized to probe specific phenomena, leading to barriers to knowledge sharing even within the same field. This short course aims to promote effective communication between disciplines, with an emphasis on analytical techniques used to study electrochemical separations and their emerging applications.