Nitrogen-doped porous carbon spheres for highly efficient capacitive deionization

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 158, Issue , 2015, Pages 403-409

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

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Capacitive deionization; Desalination; Electrosorption; Nitrogen doping; Porous carbon spheres

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DESALINATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NITROGEN; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPHERES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AMMONIA ATMOSPHERE; CAPACITIVE DEIONIZATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; ELECTROSORPTION; NACL CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN ADSORPTION DESORPTION; NITROGEN-DOPING; POROUS CARBON SPHERES;

GAS ADSORPTION;

EID: 84922334013     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.01.179     Document Type: Article

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