Separation and purification of metals using selective transport by extracting surfactants across liquid–liquid interfaces

Research from the group of Aurora Clark

The group of Professor Aurora Clark in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah studies the separation and purification of metals using selective transport by extracting surfactants across liquid–liquid interfaces. This video presents a short snippet of the extraction of water (in yellow) via the formation of a protrusion (grey) facilitated by the surfactant tributyl phosphate (in purple and orange) using classical molecular dynamics simulations. The full extraction simulation takes over 80 nanoseconds of simulation time to complete, which involves over 80 million frames of data and over 10,000 particles.