Enhancement in ion adsorption rate and desalination efficiency in a capacitive deionization cell through improved electric field distribution using electrodes composed of activated carbon cloth coated with zinc oxide nanorods

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 10113-10120

  Laxman, Karthik ^a   Myint, Myo Tay Zar ^a   Bourdoucen, Hadj ^a   Dutta, Joydeep ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

activated carbon cloth; capacitive deionization; charge efficiency; electric field; zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; CAPACITANCE; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DESALINATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONS; NANORODS; ZINC OXIDE;

ACTIVATED CARBON CLOTH; ACTIVE SURFACE AREA; CAPACITIVE DEIONIZATION; CHARGE EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD FORCE; ELECTRIC FIELD LINES; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 84904108535     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501041t     Document Type: Article

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