Illinois engineer continues to make waves in water desalination
For the past several years, assistant professor Kyle Smith has proven his growing expertise in the field of water desalination, with a range of research results that could address the immediate need to...
View ArticleTheory of pore-scale transport to enable improved flow batteries
In a recently published article in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society (freely available at doi.org/10.1149/2.0212001JES), Prof. Smith and his PhD student Md Abdul Hamid have introduced new...
View ArticleArticle Published on Nemani’s Numerical Modeling Techniques for...
An article by Smith group alumnus Dr. Venkat Pavan Nemani (now a postdoc at Iowa State University) was recently published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society [Nemani and Smith, J....
View ArticleSmith Group Desalination Work Highlighted in WaterWorld Magazine
The 2019 Water Research article of the Smith group on water desalination using battery-type materials [Reale, Shrivastava, and Smith, Water Research, Vol. 165, Art. No. 114995] was recently highlighted...
View ArticleProfessor Smith interviewed concerning his academic journey
Professor Smith was recently interviewed by Purdue University’s Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council concerning his journey in research and becoming a faculty member at the University of Illinois....
View ArticleSmith group PhD student Sizhe Liu reports on the influence of absorbed water...
The work of PhD student Sizhe Liu investigating the effect of water absorption within Prussian blue analogues was recently published in the journal Physical Review Materials. The corresponding article...
View ArticleMechSE team makes waves in water desalination
Three levels of the MechSE community came together on a water desalination research project that resulted in a recent publication in the journal Water Research X, which is the open-access mirror of the...
View ArticleSizhe Liu’s Paper on Water’s Effect on Cation Intercalation in PBAs Published
Smith group alumnus Dr. Sizhe Liu recently had his paper on the subject of water’s effect on cation intercalation in Prussian blue analogues accepted in the Journal of Applied Physics.
View ArticleSmith group presents new theory of convection for understanding fast charging...
See our new paper published in the Journal of Power Sources where we’ve introduced a spectral Sherwood number for modeling transient electrochemistry within porous electrodes. The results have primary...
View ArticleEmbedded microchannels lend fresh insight into battery-based desalination...
Our work on microchannels embedded in intercalation electrodes for battery-based desalination was recently published in Energy and Environmental Science. See this press release for more information.
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