Accelerating Discovery to Deployment: Argonne's Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) and Its Role in Scaling Materials Technologies for Water and Resource Solutions (Adv. Mater. Technol. 8/2026)

Resource Recovery This image depicts the translation of technology from laboratory discovery to industry deployment, accelerated by pilot-scale synthesis and characterization at U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories. The water background reflects the manuscript's focus on water and resource recovery. The bubbles illustrate lab-, pilot-, and industrial-scale technologies, with the central bubble highlighting a large-scale electrodialysis facility at Argonne National Laboratory. More information can be found in the Perspective by Yuepeng Zhang, Gregory K. Krumdick, Jessica Durham Macholz, Allison Bennett Irion, Junhong Chen, Seth B. Darling, and co-workers (10.1002/admt.202501973).