Authors: William Lee, Rishab Nayak, Cecilia Knapp, Camila Soderholm
Mentors: Ryan Stolley
Insitution: University of Utah
Recent publications have shown pyridine carboxylate functionalized aza-crown ethers coordinate strongly to a number of rare earth elements. Considering their strong coordination, we have modified these crown-ethers with a number of hydrophobic moieties to allow for adsorption to non-polar substrates to enable packed bed isolation of these elements to address the broad use and limited availability of these elements.