Electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes-polyacrylic acid composite film electrode for capacitive deionization

  • Chunyang Nie
  • , Likun Pan*
  • , Yong Liu
  • , Haibo Li
  • , Taiqiang Chen
  • , Ting Lu
  • , Zhuo Sun
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-polyacrylic acid (PAA) composite film has been successfully fabricated by electrophoretic deposition method in PAA aqueous solution containing CNTs and used as electrodes for capacitive deionization (CDI). The PAA serves as the cation-exchange polymer and the matrix to incorporate the CNTs. The CDI unit cell based on CNTs-PAA composite film electrode exhibits a high NaCl removal of 83%, 51% higher than that of the cell based on pure CNTs electrode, with a good regeneration ability.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)106-109
Number of pages4
JournalElectrochimica Acta
Volume66
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2012

Keywords

  • Capacitive deionization
  • Carbon nanotubes
  • Cation-exchange polymer
  • Electrophoretic deposition
  • Polyacrylic acid

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