A guide to ion separations for the global energy transition

IF 35.4 1区材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

Joule Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI:10.1016/j.joule.2025.102134

Ryan Kingsbury

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Ion separation materials and processes play a crucial and easily overlooked role in emerging technologies for energy conversion and storage, critical resource recovery, and environmental protection. However, many emerging separation problems exceed the capabilities of currently available materials. Accelerating research in this area thus has high potential to advance economic and environmental sustainability. Efforts to develop more selective materials are hindered by an incomplete understanding of microscopic ion transport and sorption behavior as well as disparate terminology and conventions for describing a single phenomenon among different fields. This perspective offers a coherent framework for rationalizing ion separation behavior based on a rigorous review of electrolyte physical chemistry. After surveying the scope of relevant ionic species and electrolytes, it consolidates their key physical-chemical properties into a “periodic table of ions” that provides a useful heuristic for understanding ion separations. It also comments on the prospects for different material and process design strategies and offers a set of best practices for maximizing the rigor and transferability of new ion separations research.

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全球能源转型中的离子分离指南

离子分离材料和工艺在能源转换和储存、关键资源回收和环境保护等新兴技术中发挥着至关重要的作用。然而，许多新出现的分离问题超出了现有材料的能力。因此，加速这一领域的研究具有促进经济和环境可持续性的巨大潜力。由于对微观离子传输和吸附行为的不完全理解，以及描述不同领域中单一现象的不同术语和惯例，阻碍了开发更多选择性材料的努力。这一观点提供了一个连贯的框架，合理的离子分离行为基于严格审查电解质物理化学。在调查了相关离子种类和电解质的范围后，它将它们的关键物理化学性质整合到“离子周期表”中，为理解离子分离提供了有用的启发。它还评论了不同材料和工艺设计策略的前景，并提供了一套最佳实践，以最大限度地提高新离子分离研究的严谨性和可转移性。

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Joule Energy-General Energy

CiteScore

53.10

自引率

2.00%

发文量

198

期刊介绍： Joule is a sister journal to Cell that focuses on research, analysis, and ideas related to sustainable energy. It aims to address the global challenge of the need for more sustainable energy solutions. Joule is a forward-looking journal that bridges disciplines and scales of energy research. It connects researchers and analysts working on scientific, technical, economic, policy, and social challenges related to sustainable energy. The journal covers a wide range of energy research, from fundamental laboratory studies on energy conversion and storage to global-level analysis. Joule aims to highlight and amplify the implications, challenges, and opportunities of novel energy research for different groups in the field.