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🧵(2/10) Water is an indispensable resource, not only for the water itself but also the valuable metals within it. Harvesting these metals from various water sources could augment supplies of metals needed for critical technologies such as electric vehicles and solar cells.

🧵(3/10) The prospect of mining metals from wastewater and brine has led to substantial research to develop the required technology, but there is little guidance about what metals may be technologically and economically recovered.

🧵(4/10) In our paper, we provide our perspective on: (i) what metals should be prioritized for recovery; (ii) the water sources those metals should be recovered from; (iii) and the most promising technologies for large-scale metal recovery.

🧵(5/10) We argue that priority metals should be those that are geologically scarce, vital to essential industries, available as companion metals, rarely recycled, or energy intensive to produce.

🧵(6/10) In some cases these metals could be recovered from industrial wastewater. Seawater, however, is not a viable source for most metals because water processing costs would be unrealistically small (e.g. 10^-5 USD/m^3 for gallium) to recover metals at less than market price.

🧵(7/10) Lastly, conventional separation methods may not be able to provide sustainable metal recovery at scale because they require regular regeneration, produce large volumes of waste, or lack customizability.

🧵(8/10) Capacitive electrodes and synthetic membranes, which can be more resource-efficient and versatile, are potential solutions with further development.

🧵(9/10) We hope this article will initiate analyses into what metals are worth recovering from which water sources. Meanwhile, we provide preliminary direction to focus research toward applications of metal recovery from water that are most likely to become viable.

Go check out our new paper in Nature Water on the Prospects of Metal Recovery from Wastewater and Brine! 💧📱🪫

In our first issue: What are the prospects for metal recovery from wastewater Read the perspective by Ryan M. DuChanois et al Ryan DuChanois Menachem Elimelech 👇 bit.ly/3iTBCmn

Such an incredible seminar and lunch, we were so lucky to have you!!

Very excited to share that I was awarded a Fulbright! Can’t wait to collaborate with the Oded Nir this coming winter! 🏜️ 💧

Week full of awards to our group Cody Ritt: AEESP Doctoral Dissertation Award Sohum Patel: American Chemical Society Gonter Research Paper Award Lauren Mazurowski: The Fulbright Program International Fellowship Weiyi: AEESP Doctoral Dissertation Award (based on PhD @WUSTL)

Check out our new paper! ⬇️🎉

Our group at the Adventure Escape Room in Shelton, CT.   A great team-building activity and lots of fun on a hot summer day.   And we managed to escape the room after one hour….. @YaleSEAS Yale Environ. Eng.       #EscapeRoom   #TeamBuilding

(1/3) I am delighted to announce that I will be joining NC State University as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering NC State MAE NC State Engineering this August! My lab will compute for materials design in separation processes with applications in energy and environment.

Congratulations to our group member Lauren (Lauren Mazurowski) on passing the PhD Area Examination and officially becoming a #PhD candidate. Exciting PhD proposal on exploiting coordination complex geometry for ion-ion selective membranes. Yale Environ. Eng. @YaleSEAS NEWT Engineering Research Center

Excited to share our work on a new separation method for PFAS! PFOA esterification yields highly insoluble products which readily precipitate out of water. Read about it in ES&T letters go.acs.org/8Kj

Super cool work on PFOA precipitation as a treatment method for industrial PFAS waste! Susanna Maisto John Fortner 👍🏼