Selective Pseudocapacitive Deionization of Calcium Ions in Copper Hexacyanoferrate

No Thumbnail Available
File version
Author(s)
Xu, Yingsheng
Zhou, Hongjian
Wang, Guozhong
Zhang, Yunxia
Zhang, Haimin
Zhao, Huijun
Griffith University Author(s)
Primary Supervisor
Other Supervisors
Editor(s)
Date
2020
Size
File type(s)
Location
License
Abstract

In recent years, the capacitive deionization (CDI) technology has gradually become a promising technology for hard water treatment. Up to now, most of the work for water softening in CDI was severely limited by the inferior selectivity and electrosorption performances of carbon-based electrodes in spite of combining Ca2+-selective ion-exchange resin or membranes. Pseudocapacitive electrode materials that selectively interact with specific ions by Faradic redox reactions or ion (de)intercalation offer an alternative strategy for highly selective electrosorption of Ca2+ from water because of brilliant ion adsorption capacity. Here, we first used copper hexacyanoferrate (CuHCF) as a pseudocapacitive electrode to methodically study the selective pseudocapacitive deionization of Ca2+ over Na+ and Mg2+. Using the hybrid CDI cell consisting of a CuHCF cathode and an activated carbon anode without any ion-exchange membrane, the outstanding Ca2+ electrosorption capacity of 42.8 mg·g-1 and superior selectivity &(Ca2+/Na+) of 3.05 at a molar ratio of 10:1 were obtained at 1.4 V, surpassing those of the reported carbon-based electrodes. Finally, electrochemical measurements and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations provided an in-depth understanding of the selective pseudocapacitive deionization of Ca2+ ions in a CuHCF electrode. Our study would be helpful for developing high-efficiency selective electrosorption of target charged ions by intrinsic properties of pseudocapacitive materials.

Journal Title

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Conference Title
Book Title
Edition
Volume
Issue
Thesis Type
Degree Program
School
Publisher link
Patent number
Funder(s)
Grant identifier(s)
Rights Statement
Rights Statement
Item Access Status
Note

This publication has been entered in Griffith Research Online.as an advanced online version.

Access the data
Related item(s)
Subject

Chemical sciences

Engineering

Faradic electrode

Prussian blue analogues

capacitive deionization

selective electrosorption

water softening

Persistent link to this record
Citation

Xu, Y; Zhou, H; Wang, G; Zhang, Y; Zhang, H; Zhao, H, Selective Pseudocapacitive Deionization of Calcium Ions in Copper Hexacyanoferrate, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020

Collections