Research Description
Develops advanced materials for molecularly selective separations and process intensification for applications in energy, environment, and chemical manufacturing.
Awards and Honors
- ACS Analytical Division Satinder Ahuja Award in Separation Science (2024)
- AIChE Separations Division FRI/John G. Kunesh Award (2023)
- American Chemistry Society’s (ACS) division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry Unilever Award Recipient (2023)
- Center for Advanced Study, Fellow (2022)
- International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) Elsevier Prize for Green Electrochemistry (2021)
- ACS Victor K. LaMer Award (2020)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Affiliate, Chemistry
Assistant Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Highlighted Publications
J. Hong, X. Su, Electrosynthesis of Unusual Nonfcc Palladium Hydride Nanoparticles, JACS, 2024, early view.
A. Roman Santiago, S. Yin, J. Elbert, J. Lee, D. Shukla, X. Su, Imparting Selective Fluorophilic Interactions in Redox Copolymers for the Electrochemically Mediated Capture of Short-Chain PFAS, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 17, 9508-9519.
J. Jeon, J. Elbert, C. H. Chung, J. Chae, X. Su, Chiral metallopolymers for redox-mediated enantioselective interactions, Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 202301545, DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202301545
Recent Publications
Candeago, R., Wang, H., Nguyen, M. T., Doucet, M., Glezakou, V. A., Browning, J. F., & Su, X. (2024). Unraveling the Role of Solvation and Ion Valency on Redox-Mediated Electrosorption through In Situ Neutron Reflectometry and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics. JACS Au, 4(3), 919-929. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.3c00705
Chung, C.-H., Cotty, S., Jeon, J., Elbert, J., & Su, X. (2024). Auto-oxidation of redox electrodes for the selective recovery of platinum group metals. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TA01384K
Cotty, S. R., Faniyan, A., Elbert, J., & Su, X. (2024). Redox-mediated electrochemical liquid–liquid extraction for selective metal recovery. Nature Chemical Engineering. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44286-024-00049-x