Battery materials as emerging capacitive deionization electrodes for desalination have better salt removal capacities than traditional carbon-based materials.LiMn_(2)O_(4),a widely used cathode mate-rial,is difficult ...Battery materials as emerging capacitive deionization electrodes for desalination have better salt removal capacities than traditional carbon-based materials.LiMn_(2)O_(4),a widely used cathode mate-rial,is difficult to utilize as a deionization electrode due to its structural instability upon cycling and Mn dissolution in aqueous-based electrolytes.Herein,a facile and low-cost ball-milling routine was proposed to prepare a LiMn_(2)O_(4)material with highly exposed(111)facets.The prepared electrode exhibited relatively low dissolution of Mn during cycling,which shows its long cycle stability.In the hybrid capacitive deionization system,the LiMn_(2)O_(4)/C electrode delivered a high desalination capacity of 117.3 mg g^(−1) without obvious capacity decay at a voltage of 1.0 V with a 20 mM initial salt concentration.In addition,the exposed(111)facets significantly alleviated Mn ion dissolution,which also enhanced the structural steadiness.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2020YFC1909200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52104315).
文摘Battery materials as emerging capacitive deionization electrodes for desalination have better salt removal capacities than traditional carbon-based materials.LiMn_(2)O_(4),a widely used cathode mate-rial,is difficult to utilize as a deionization electrode due to its structural instability upon cycling and Mn dissolution in aqueous-based electrolytes.Herein,a facile and low-cost ball-milling routine was proposed to prepare a LiMn_(2)O_(4)material with highly exposed(111)facets.The prepared electrode exhibited relatively low dissolution of Mn during cycling,which shows its long cycle stability.In the hybrid capacitive deionization system,the LiMn_(2)O_(4)/C electrode delivered a high desalination capacity of 117.3 mg g^(−1) without obvious capacity decay at a voltage of 1.0 V with a 20 mM initial salt concentration.In addition,the exposed(111)facets significantly alleviated Mn ion dissolution,which also enhanced the structural steadiness.