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• @kirk@social.coop 2026-04-30 10:05

  @65dBnoise me? Technically, yes, I could cycle it if I had the chemicals but I don't have the financial/scientific resources to do it in my small home lab right now. If someone wanted to sponsor it I could 😅 The synthesis is straightforward, so probably fine without characterization---just mixing ligands with iron salts in the right proportions (they use some expensive analytical techniques to verify their compounds), but then I'd have to get Nafion membrane, which is expensive, requires hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid at temperature to pretreat, etc. Which generates waste in quantities I can't deal with. It would be more appropriate in an academic lab, which I don't have access to now. In general I am not a fan of asymmetric systems like this because they are not robust. Crossover of active material from between sides through the membrane is inevitable and irreversible. Unless very cheap and suitable membranes become commercially available.

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