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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kim, Hyo-Sub
• Sohn, Joon-Yong
• Hwang, In-Tae
• Shin, Junhwa
• Jung, Chan-Hee
• Son, Won Keun
• Kang, Kyung Suk

Titel

Electron beam-based fabrication of crosslinked hydrophilic carbon electrodes and their application for capacitive deionization

Ist Teil von

• RSC advances, 2019-01, Vol.9 (17), p.9684-9691

Ort / Verlag

England: Royal Society of Chemistry

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this research, we demonstrated that a crosslinked hydrophilic carbon electrode with better electrochemical performance than hydrophobic counterparts can easily be produced using room-temperature, quick electron-beam irradiation with a hydrophilic methacryloyl-substituted polyvinyl alcohol (SPVA) binder. The SPVA binder was effectively synthesized by trans-esterification of PVA with glycidyl methacrylate. The hydrophilic carbon electrode cast on a graphite sheet from a slurry of activated carbon (AC) and SPVA was irradiated with an electron beam to form a crosslinked structure. The analytical results in terms of the morphology, solvent resistance, chemical composition, and contact angle revealed that the carbon electrode was completely crosslinked by electron-beam irradiation even at the dose of 100 kGy (irradiation time = 180 s). The new electrode exhibited superior water-wettability due to the hydrophilic functionality of SPVA. Furthermore, the hydrophilic carbon electrode with an AC : SPVA composition of 90 : 10 and an absorbed dose of 200 kGy, exhibited a specific capacitance of 127 F g (67% higher than the hydrophobic poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)-based counterpart with the same composition). The specific capacitance was further improved to 160 F g with an increase in the AC content. The hydrophilic carbon electrode exhibited noticeably better desalination efficiency than the hydrophobic PVDF-based counterpart.