Xiao Su
- Assistant Professor
(217) 300-0134
107 Roger Adams Laboratory
Develops advanced materials for molecularly selective separations and process intensification for applications in energy, environment, and chemical manufacturing.
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Education
- Postdoctorate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017-2018
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017
- BASc., University of Waterloo, 2011
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Selected Articles in Journals
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]
- 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.
- 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, 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.
- 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, 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]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Honors
- 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)
- RCSA Scialog Fellow (2020)
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2019)
- Illinois Water Resources Center Fellow (2019)
- Whakapukahatanga Taiao Research Fellow, University of Auckland (2018)
- Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Catalyst Award (2016-2017)
- MIT Water Innovation Prize (2016)
- MIT Veraqua Prize (2016)
- ACS Langmuir Student Oral Presentation Award (2016)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Doctoral Fellowship (2011-2014)