{"id":236812,"date":"2026-05-08T22:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/anion-swap-unlocks-sevenfold-co%e2%82%82-capture-in-polyionic-liquids"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:32:46","slug":"anion-swap-unlocks-sevenfold-co%e2%82%82-capture-in-polyionic-liquids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/anion-swap-unlocks-sevenfold-co%e2%82%82-capture-in-polyionic-liquids","title":{"rendered":"Anion swap unlocks sevenfold CO\u2082 capture in polyionic liquids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anion-swap-unlocks-sevenfold-coe28282-capture-in-polyionic-liquids2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A joint research team from Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd. (Nittobo) and Tohoku University has revealed that polyionic liquids (PILs) can achieve high carbon dioxide (CO\u2082) adsorption when their counter anions are exchanged. This discovery provides a critical new design guideline for the development of high-performance CO<sub>2<\/sub> recovery devices and gas separation membranes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2026\/re\/d5re00535c\" target=\"_blank\">The research<\/a> was led by Associate Professor Kouki Oka of the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, with the results published online in Reaction Chemistry &amp; Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>PILs are known for their strong ability to attract CO\u2082 and for their stability as solid materials. However, conventional anion exchange methods struggle to remove inorganic salts, which are by-products of the manufacturing process. These impurities make it difficult to accurately evaluate the materials\u2019 true performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint research team from Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd. (Nittobo) and Tohoku University has revealed that polyionic liquids (PILs) can achieve high carbon dioxide (CO\u2082) adsorption when their counter anions are exchanged. This discovery provides a critical new design guideline for the development of high-performance CO2 recovery devices and gas separation membranes. The research was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}