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Biography
Xiao Su is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is also a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
Education
Ph.D., chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017
BASc., University of Waterloo, 2011
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Honors
2023: AIChE Separations FRI/John G. Kunesh Award
2023: ACS Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloids & Surfactant Science
2023: School of Chemical Sciences Teaching Award
2022: Center for Advanced Study, Fellow
2021: International Society of Electrochemistry Elsevier Prize for Green Electrochemistry
2020: ACS Victor K. LaMer Award
2020: RCSA Scialog Fellow
2019: National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2019: Illinois Water Resources Center Fellow
2018: Whakapukahatanga Taiao Research Fellow, University of Auckland
2016- 2017: Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Catalyst Award
2016: MIT Water Innovation Prize
2016: MIT Veraqua Prize
2016: ACS Langmuir Student Oral Presentation Award
2011-2014: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Doctoral Fellowship
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Research
Research areas:
Advanced separations
Process intensification
Molecular engineering
Professor Su is a chemical engineer whose interdisciplinary research program encompasses energy and environmental processes, water treatment and purification, chemical and biological manufacturing, and advanced materials synthesis. He has developed greener methods to manufacture, use and recycle chemicals, and his recent work on electrodialysis-based water purification addresses the energy and water crises simultaneously.
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2022
- N. Kim, J. Jeon, J. Elbert, C. Kim, X. Su. Redox-mediated Electrochemical Desalination for Waste Valorization in Dairy Production. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 428, 131082.
2021
- H. Vapnik, J. Elbert, X. Su. Redox-Copolymers for the Recovery of Rare-Earth Elements by Electrochemically-Regenerated Ion Exchange. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021, 9, 20068-20077.
- K. Kim, D. Raymond, R. Candeago, X. Su. Selective cobalt and nickel electrodeposition for lithium-ion battery recycling through integrated electrolyte and interface control. Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 6554.
- R. Chen, J. Feng, J. Jeon, T. Sheehan, C. Ruttiger, M. Gallei, D. Shukla, X. Su. Structure and Potential-Dependent Selectivity in Redox-Metallopolymers: Electrochemically Mediated Multicomponent Metal Separations. Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31 (15), 2009307.
2019
- K. Kim, S. Cotty, J. Elbert, R. Chen, C.H. Hou, X. Su. Asymmetric Redox-Polymer Interfaces for Electrochemical Reactive Separations: Synergistic Capture and Conversion of Arsenic. Advanced Materials, 2019. Early View: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201906877 [Highlighted as Inside Front Cover]
2018
- X. Su, A. Kushima, C. Halliday, J. Zhou, J. Li, T. A. Hatton. Electrochemically-mediated selective capture of heavy metal chromium and arsenic oxyanions from water. Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 4701.
2017
- X. Su, and T.A. Hatton, “Redox-electrodes for selective electrochemical separations,” Advances in Colloid & Interface Science, 2017, State-of-Art Perspective, 244, 6-20.
- X. Su, K.J. Tan, J. Elbert, C. Ruttiger, M. Gallei, T.F. Jamison, and T.A. Hatton, “Asymmetric Faradaic systems for selective electrochemical separations,” Energy & Environmental Science, 2017, 10, 1272-1283.
- X. Su, L. Bromberg, K.J. Tan, T.F. Jamison, L.K. Padhye, T.A. Hatton, “Electrochemically Mediated Reduction of Nitrosamines by Hemin-Functionalized Redox Electrodes," Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2017, 4 (4), 161-167.
- X. Su, L. Bromberg, V. Martis, F. Simeon, A. Huq, T.A. Hatton. Post-synthetic Functionalization of Mg-MOF-74 with Tetraethylenepentamine: Structural Characterization and Enhanced CO2 Adsorption. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9 (12), 11299-11306.
2016
- X. Su, H. Kulik, T.F. Jamison, and T.A. Hatton, “Anion-selective redox electrodes: electrochemically-mediated separation with organometallic interfaces,” Advanced Functional Materials. 2016, 26(20), 3394-3404. [Highlighted as back-cover]
2014
- Bromberg, X. Su, and T.A. Hatton, “Functional networks of organic and coordination polymers for Fructose Conversion,” Chemistry of Materials, 2014, 26 (21), 6257-6264.
2013
- Kozak, J. Wu, X. Su, F. Simeon, T.A. Hatton, and T.F. Jamison, “ Bromine-Catalyzed Conversion of CO2 and Epoxides to Cyclic Carbonates under Continuous Flow Conditions,” Journal of American Chemical Society, 2013, 135 (49), 18497–18501.
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2024
2023
- Beckman researcher serves as principle investigator on team harnessing solar energy for water purification
- Su, Shukla receive NSF grant for development of materials to recover critical elements from U.S. mines
- Beckman researcher helps develop new approach to electrified water purification
- Solar energy could help purify water, researchers find
- Renewable solar energy can help purify water, the environment
- Xiao Su talks desalination research on the Stevie Jay Morning Show
- Novel electrification method used to desalinate water at scale
- Don’t wait, desalinate: the electrified future of clean water
- Mirror, mirror: Su group demonstrates new method of recognizing reverse-image molecules
- Su shares expertise on filter technology that captures harmful chemicals found in water
- Study demonstrates energy-efficient conversion of nitrate pollutants into ammonia
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