Our research on temperature swing solvent extraction (TSSE) for the desalination of hypersaline brines and zero liquid discharge is highlighted in a Nature news feature! The article, titled "How do you make salty water drinkable? The hunt for fresh solutions to a briny problem", distills down the technical challenges of managing very high salt concentration streams. Our innovation of using switchable solvents with thermo-responsive hydrophilicity as a salt-repelling "liquid sponge" was mentioned as an outside-the-box alternative to the problem. The key papers referenced are doi:10.1021/acs.estlett.9b00182 and doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c02555.
