This focus area’s projects employ life-cycle assessment, techno-economic analyses and risk analyses to ensure our nation’s water sustainability.

In this area, Argonne is developing affordable chemical and biological sensors that monitor water quality in polluted areas and control methods for water-related processes such as fouling of surfaces.

This focus area involves developing functional groups, sorbents, membranes and catalysts for selective separation of various contaminants from water.

Projects in this area focus on developing accurate and efficient physics-based models, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms and simulation software to advance the study of water and aqueous solutions.

Argonne’s water-related materials projects focus on developing and characterizing various materials such as membranes, sorbents and catalysts relevant to water monitoring, treatment, conveyance and reuse, and water-enabled energy production.

This focus area concerns the scaleup of materials manufacturing and processing, including data-enabled cyber-manufacturing.

Argonne researchers leverage multidisciplinary teams, world-class facilities, powerful scientific tools, artificial intelligence and strategic partnerships to confront some of the most profound challenges for water-related science and technology.