Welcome to the TIN Ion Exchange Materials website.

Here you will find people and information relevant to research in tin-based ion exchange materials.

This is not a new topic, but has a new market driver. Today sustainability is a key theme for technology developments of all kinds, attempting to deal with global issues such as energy, waste and resource conservation.

Tin-based ion exchange materials are highly capable of coordinating other metal ions, including radionuclides. Further, they can do this at extremes of temperature, pH and pressure. This makes them interesting candidates for a variety of new applications including minewater remediation, radioactive cleanup and cadmium in phosphate fertilisers.

ITRI is keen to bring together researchers across the world who are skilled in the basic technologies of inorganic ion exchangers, and especially those who have experience with tin-based systems.

Current work at ITRI is evaluating the basic surface chemistry of tin oxide and its mixed metal variants. Metal coordination properties in various target media are being measured.