**Acknowledgements**

The authors would like to acknowledge this study was made possible by The US DOE Award DE-FE0031776 from the Office of Fossil Energy. We also thank Ben Chapman of College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology (CEAT), OSU for helping with the graphics. We are grateful to our Team Members in Hydraulic Barrier and Geomimicry Materials at OSU: Allan Katende, Cody Massion, Chris Grider and Vamsi Vissa for their support.
