Locally Enhanced Flow and Electric Fields Through a Tip Effect for Efficient Flow-Electrode Capacitive Deionization

Ziquan Wang; Xiangfeng Chen; Yuan Zhang; Jie Ma; Zhiqun Lin; Amor Abdelkader; Maria-Magdalena Titirici; Libo Deng

doi:10.1007/s40820-024-01531-0

Nano-Micro Letters (Sep 2024)

Locally Enhanced Flow and Electric Fields Through a Tip Effect for Efficient Flow-Electrode Capacitive Deionization

Ziquan Wang,
Xiangfeng Chen,
Yuan Zhang,
Jie Ma,
Zhiqun Lin,
Amor Abdelkader,
Maria-Magdalena Titirici,
Libo Deng

Affiliations

Ziquan Wang: College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University
Xiangfeng Chen: College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University
Yuan Zhang: College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University
Jie Ma: Research Center for Environmental Functional Materials, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University
Zhiqun Lin: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore
Amor Abdelkader: Department of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University
Maria-Magdalena Titirici: Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
Libo Deng: College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-024-01531-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 17, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

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Highlights Steel tip arrays were used as current collectors to replace planar conductors. Optimal flow and electric fields reduced barriers for electron and ion transport. Desalination performance of flow-electrode capacitive deionization is enhanced by the tip-array current collectors.

Published in Nano-Micro Letters

ISSN: 2311-6706 (Print); 2150-5551 (Online)
Publisher: SpringerOpen
Country of publisher: Germany
LCC subjects: Technology
Website: http://www.springer.com/40820

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