My research focuses on advancing freezing desalination as a novel strategy to overcome its traditional limitations in efficiency, energy consumption, and mechanistic understanding. These investigations have led to the demonstration that slurry ice, produced via supercooling, enables far faster centrifugal desalination than solid ice; elucidated the microscopic mechanisms of ice crystal growth by linking ion types to structural efficiency; and culminated in a novel hybrid system that integrates desalination with ice storage for enhanced energy and economic performance.