{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["31(72)"],"submitter":["Heinrich S"],"funding":["University of Calgary","Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials"],"pubmed_abstract":["Lithium is a critical element with a projected exponential rise in demand due to its widespread use in battery energy storage. New methods to extract Li<sup>+</sup>, such as through membrane adsorption-based direct Li<sup>+</sup> extraction (DLE) technologies, are at various stages of development and aim to separate Li<sup>+</sup> from brine and even seawater. In this report, we present a fundamentally new class of highly selective Li<sup>+</sup>-capture agent, the carborane-crown compound, 1,2-((6,6,7,7-Me<sub>4</sub>)14-crown-4)-ortho-carborane (<sup>14C4</sup>Cb), which is electrochemically activated for strong, selective Li<sup>+</sup> binding over Na<sup>+</sup> and K<sup>+</sup>. This newly synthesized extractant features a redox-tunable cavity size, giving rise to tunable binding co"],"journal":["Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)"],"pagination":["e02902"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12731541"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["A Redox-Tunable Carborane Crown: Toward Highly Selective Electrochemical Lithium Capture."],"pmcid":["PMC12731541"],"pubmed_authors":["Sepunaru L","Menard G","Yeow A","Dobrovetsky R","Rajpurohit J","Wang Z","Heinrich S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"A Redox-Tunable Carborane Crown: Toward Highly Selective Electrochemical Lithium Capture.","description":"Lithium is a critical element with a projected exponential rise in demand due to its widespread use in battery energy storage. New methods to extract Li<sup>+</sup>, such as through membrane adsorption-based direct Li<sup>+</sup> extraction (DLE) technologies, are at various stages of development and aim to separate Li<sup>+</sup> from brine and even seawater. In this report, we present a fundamentally new class of highly selective Li<sup>+</sup>-capture agent, the carborane-crown compound, 1,2-((6,6,7,7-Me<sub>4</sub>)14-crown-4)-ortho-carborane (<sup>14C4</sup>Cb), which is electrochemically activated for strong, selective Li<sup>+</sup> binding over Na<sup>+</sup> and K<sup>+</sup>. This newly synthesized extractant features a redox-tunable cavity size, giving rise to tunable binding co","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Dec","modification":"2026-06-06T04:30:31.757Z","creation":"2026-05-25T03:11:37.89Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12731541","cross_references":{"pubmed":["41243638"],"doi":["10.1002/chem.202502902"]}}