Tailoring the electrode material and structure of rocking-chair capacitive deionization for high-performance desalination

Abstract

With the gradually increasing requirement for freshwater, capacitive deionization (CDI) as a burgeoning desalination technique has gained wide attention owing to its merits of easy operation, high desalination efficiency, and environmental friendliness. To enhance the desalination performance of CDI, different CDI architectures are designed, such as membrane CDI, hybrid CDI, and flow-electrode CDI. However, these CDI systems have their own drawbacks, such as the high cost of membranes, capacity limitation of carbon materials and slurry blockage, which severely limit their practical application. Notably, rocking-chair CDI (RCDI) composed of symmetric electrode materials delivers excellent desalination performance because of its special dual chamber structure, which can not only break through the capacity limitations of carbon materials, but also deliver a continuous desalination process. Although RCDI showcases high promise for efficient desalination, few works systematically summarize the advantages and applications of RCDI in the desalination field. This review offers a thorough analysis of RCDI, focusing on its electrode materials, structure designs and desalination applications. Furthermore, the desalination performances of RCDI and other CDI architectures are compared to demonstrate the advantages of RCDI and the prospect of RCDI is elucidated.

Graphical abstract: Tailoring the electrode material and structure of rocking-chair capacitive deionization for high-performance desalination

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
17 giu 2024
Accepted
29 lug 2024
First published
01 ago 2024

Mater. Horiz., 2024, Advance Article

Tailoring the electrode material and structure of rocking-chair capacitive deionization for high-performance desalination

H. Wang, Y. Liu, Y. Li, X. Xu, T. Lu and L. Pan, Mater. Horiz., 2024, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D4MH00773E

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