Office Location:
Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439-4806
Seth Darling is the Chief Science & Technology Officer for the Advanced Energy Technologies Directorate and a Senior Scientist in the Chemical Sciences & Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He also serves as the Director of the Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems (AMEWS) Energy Frontier Research Center.
His group’s research centers around molecular engineering, with a current emphasis on advanced materials for cleaning water, having made previous contributions in fields ranging from self-assembly to advanced lithography to solar energy. He has published over 140 scientific articles, holds over a dozen patents, is a co-author of popular books on water and on debunking climate skeptic myths, and lectures widely on topics related to energy, water, and climate. He received his PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Chicago.
Darling's research focuses primarily on advanced materials for applications in cleaning water, ranging from membranes to sorbents to catalysts. He is co-inventor of a precision materials synthesis method called sequential infiltration synthesis (SIS), which has been applied in materials for water treatment, as well as in applications in optics, polymer science, and beyond.
M. Ramanathan, S.M. Kilbey II, and S.B. Darling. Process-Controlled Multiscale Morphologies in Metal-Containing Block Copolymer Thin Films. J. Nanosci. Nanotechno.. 2014. Vol. 14, Pg. 2653-2657.
