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  • Mechanical engineers lend fresh insight into battery-based desalination technology

    Hokusai’s woodblock print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” showing an artistic rendering of a deep blue tsunami wave

    A chemical analog to Prussian blue, the intense blue pigment used in Hokusai’s woodblock print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” is being utilized in an updated saltwater desalination technique. Mechanical engineers at U. of I. are using it in a new electrode equipped with flow channels to make the desalination process more effective and efficient. 

    After Katsushika Hokusai, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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  • Editor’s notes

    To reach Kyle Smith, call 217-300-0928; email kcsmith@illinois.edu.

    The paper “Embedded, micro-interdigitated flow fields in high areal-loading intercalation electrodes towards seawater desalination and beyond” is available online from the journal and arxiv. DOI: 10.1039/D3EE01302B