Porous carbon spheres via microwave-assisted synthesis for capacitive deionization

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 151, Issue , 2015, Pages 489-496

  Liu, Yong ^a   Pan, Likun ^a   Chen, Taiqiang ^a   Xu, Xingtao ^a   Lu, Ting ^a   Sun, Zhuo ^a   Chua, Daniel H C ^b  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Capacitive deionization; Desalination; Electrosorption; Porous carbon spheres

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; AEROGELS; CHARGE TRANSFER; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DESALINATION; GAS ADSORPTION; MORPHOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPHERES;

CAPACITIVE DEIONIZATION; CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; ELECTROSORPTION; HIGH SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; MICROWAVE ASSISTED SYNTHESIS; NITROGEN ADSORPTION DESORPTION; POROUS CARBON SPHERES;

ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84911470984     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.11.086     Document Type: Article

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