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Highly Stable Hybrid Capacitive Deionization with a MnO Anode and a Positively Charged Cathode 2

Tingting Wu, Gang Wang, Shiyong Wang, Fei Zhan, Yu Fu, Huiying Qiao, and Jieshan Qiu Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00540 • Publication Date (Web): 22 Jan 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 24, 2018

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Highly Stable Hybrid Capacitive Deionization with a MnO2

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Anode and a Positively Charged Cathode

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Tingting Wu†, Gang Wang†, *, Shiyong Wang†, Fei Zhan†, Yu Fu†, Huiying Qiao†, Jieshan

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Qiu†, ‡, *

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State Key Lab of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Liaoning Key Lab for

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Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian

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116024, Liaoning, China.

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School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China.

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Corresponding Author:

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Gang Wang, *E-mail: [email protected];

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Jieshan Qiu, *E-mail: [email protected], *Tel/Fax: +86-411-84986024

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ABSTRACT

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Performance degradation caused by the oxidation of carbon anodes during the operation

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of capacitive deionization (CDI) remains a major problem that may greatly restrict its

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practical application. To improve the cyclic stability of CDI, carbon based anode materials

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were replaced by pseudocapacitive MnO2 in this work. The cation-selective MnO2 anode was

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assembled with an anion-selective quaternized poly (4-vinyl pyridine) coated activated

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carbon (AC-QPVP) cathode into a hybrid CDI cell. The cell exhibited inverted CDI

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performance with a wide operating voltage window of 1.4 V and salt adsorption capacity

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(SAC) of 14.9 mg/g in 500 mg/L NaCl. The SAC retention ratio of the cell can be as high as

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95.4% after 350 adsorption-desorption cycles at 1.0/0 V while that of the CDI cell consisting

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of activated carbon electrodes was only 15.7% after 285 cycles. The enhanced cyclic stability

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of the hybrid CDI cell is attributed to the employment of the MnO2 anode, which avoided the

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use and oxidation of carbon anodes.

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INTRODUCTION

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Capacitive deionization (CDI) is a promising desalination technology with the

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advantages of low cell voltage operation, high energy efficiency and environmental

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friendliness. CDI usually employs two porous carbon electrodes to adsorb ions from water

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with an external electric field as the driving force.1, 2 Recently, the exploration of new CDI

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systems3-7 and electrode materials8-10, the optimization of operational processes,11-13 the

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advances in related theories14,

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Nevertheless, the gradual performance degradation during the operation of CDI is still an

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unsolved problem.16, 17

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etc. have greatly promoted the development of CDI.

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Although the cell voltage of CDI is usually lower than the theoretical value of water

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electrolysis (1.23 V vs. NHE), parasitic reactions occur during the charging process and the

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carbon anode of CDI is continually oxidized.18,

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introduces negatively charged functional groups into the carbon surface and thus aggravates

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co-ion expulsion.16 Moreover, it may reduce the specific capacitance of the carbon anodes. As

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a result, salt adsorption capacity (SAC) of CDI gradually decreases during cycling. Therefore,

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the key to inhibit the performance degradation and improve the cyclic stability of CDI is to

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suppress the oxidation of the carbon anode. Up to now, low-cell voltage operation,20 polarity

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reversal,17 introducing ion exchange membranes or polymers,21, 22 etc. have been attempted to

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improve the cyclic stability of CDI. However, these methods usually have limited

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effectiveness and may lower the SAC or increase the operational cost of CDI.

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The oxidation of the carbon anode

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In 2015, Gao et al. proposed inverted CDI (i-CDI) consisting of a carbon anode with net

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negative surface charges and a carbon cathode with net positive surface charges.5 When the 3 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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cell is charged, the electrodes are polarized towards their potential of zero charge (Epzc) and

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desorb ions. When it is discharged, ions are adsorbed to neutralize the surface charges in the

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electrodes. I-CDI effectively avoided the negative effects of co-ion expulsion on CDI

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performance and exhibited excellent cyclic stability during 600 adsorption-desorption cycles.

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However, it suffers from relatively narrow operating voltage window and SAC (0.8/0 V, ~1.8

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mg/g). In addition, oxidation of carbon anodes still occur in i-CDI, which may affect the

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properties of carbon anodes and thus greatly reduce the SAC of i-CDI.23

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Recently, various pseudocapacitive or battery materials have been explored as electrode

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materials of different deionization systems.24-26 MnO2 is a low-cost and environmentally

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friendly pseudocapacitive metal oxide and MnO2/carbon composites with different structure

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have been used as CDI electrode materials.27-30 However, these works focused on the

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preparation of electrode materials and few of them investigated the impact of MnO2 anode on

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the cyclic stability of CDI. In this work, a hybrid CDI cell (MnO2//AC-QPVP) consisting of a

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MnO2 anode and a quaternized poly (4-vinyl pyridine) coated activated carbon (AC-QPVP)

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cathode was assembled. Due to the ion selectivity of the electrodes, MnO2//AC-QPVP

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exhibited inverted CDI performance with a wide operating voltage window and a high SAC.

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Moreover, as the cell avoided the use of carbon anode materials, it exhibited good cyclic

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stability with a SAC retention ratio of 95.4% during 350 adsorption-desorption cycles at 1.0/0

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V.

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MATERIALS AND METHODS

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Preparation of MnO2.

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MnO2 was prepared by the reaction of KMnO4 with HCl.31 Typically, 3.6 g KMnO4 was 4 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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first dissolved in 40 mL deionized water at 85 ºC. Then 20 mL 1:1 (v/v) HCl was added into

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the KMnO4 solution dropwise under vigorous stirring. After the addition of HCl was

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completed, the resulting product was collected, washed with deionized water and finally dried

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in a vacuum oven at 110 ºC for 6 h. Quaternized poly (4-vinylpyridine) coated activated

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carbon (AC-QPVP) was prepared through polymerization, crosslinking and quaternization

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processes, as reported in our previous work.23

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Characterization.

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The morphology and elemental composition of MnO2 were examined using

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field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM, FEI NOVA NanoSEM 450) equipped

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with an energy-dispersive spectrometer (EDS), and transmission electron microscopy (FEI

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Tecnai G20). The crystalline structure of MnO2 was characterized by X-ray diffractometer

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(Rigaku D/Max 2400) using Cu Kα radiation (λ=1.5406 Å). To characterize the pore structure

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of MnO2, the sample was first degassed at 150 ºC for 12 h under vacuum and then nitrogen

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adsorption-desorption isotherms were measured using a Micromeritics 3-Flex surface

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characterization analyzer at 77 K. Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy

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(ICP-AES) was used to analyze the composition of the prepared MnO2 and determine the

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concentration of Mn in the tank after the cyclic test of MnO2//AC-QPVP.

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CDI tests.

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CDI electrodes were prepared by coating the homogeneous slurry of the active material,

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acetylene black, polyvinyl butyral (PVB) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in a weight ratio of

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82.5:10:6:1.5 onto graphite paper (57 cm2) followed by drying at 80 ºC overnight. The CDI

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while that consisting of two AC electrodes was denoted as AC//AC; the CDI cell with a

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MnO2 anode and an AC cathode was denoted as MnO2//AC and that with an AC anode and

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an AC-QPVP cathode was denoted as AC//AC-QPVP. A silicon gasket with the thickness of

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~1.3 mm and two pieces of nonwoven fabric with the thickness of ~120 m were used as the

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spacer and the separator of the CDI cells, respectively. All CDI tests were conducted under

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constant voltage operation. In a typical cycle, the CDI cells were first charged at a certain cell

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voltage for 5 min and then short-circuited for 5 min. Single-pass tests were conducted during

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which 2.5 L NaCl solution in a tank was pumped continuously through the CDI cell and then

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back to the tank. An electrochemical workstation (CHI 660D) was used to supply the voltage

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needed. Conductivity and pH changes in the NaCl solution at the outlet of CDI cells were

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recorded by the conductivity and pH monitor system. The salt adsorption/desorption capacity

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(, mg/g), charge (Σ, C/g) passed during the charging and discharging processes, and charge

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efficiency () were calculated according to eqs 1, 2 and 3, respectively:

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 

    c0  ct 

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

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where Ф refers to the flow rate of NaCl solution and is 9.2 mL/min in this work, c0 and ct

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(mg/L) refer to the influent and effluent NaCl concentration, respectively, m is the total mass

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of the two electrodes in a CDI cell (0.23-0.27 g in this work), i (A) is the charge current, F

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refers to Faraday constant (96485 C/mol) and M is the molar mass of NaCl (58.5 g/mol).

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The morphology and surface properties of AC-QPVP have been reported in our previous

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work.23 There are positively charged quaternary ammonium groups on the surface of

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AC-QPVP. As a result, the AC-QPVP electrode is anion selective and its Epzc can be as

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negative as -0.745 V vs. Ag/AgCl. The structure and morphology of the prepared MnO2 are

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summarized in Figure S1. The obtained product is birnessite-type MnO2 with submicron

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flower-like structure composed of highly interconnected carbon nanosheets. Its Brunauer-

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Emmett- Teller (BET) specific surface area is 193 m2/g and the pore size distribution is

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centered at about 8.6 nm. MnO2 can reversibly intercalate/deintercalate Na+ in the positive

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potential range following the eqs 4.32, 33

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MnO2 + Na + + e-

MnOONa

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CDI performance at different cell voltages.

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Figure 1 shows the CDI performance of AC//AC and MnO2//AC-QPVP at different cell

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voltages in 500 mg/L NaCl. As shown in Figure 1a, AC//AC exhibits conventional CDI

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performance, i.e. ions are adsorbed when the cell is charged and desorbed when the cell is

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discharged. By contrast, MnO2//AC-QPVP exhibits inverted performance at different cell

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voltages. When the cell is charged, ions are released from the electrodes into the electrolyte.

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During this process, the MnO2 electrode is oxidized and cations in the MnO2 structure are

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deintercalated to maintain charge balance. Simultaneously, the AC-QPVP electrode is

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polarized towards its Epzc and desorbs Cl-. When the cell is discharged, ions are stored into

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the electrodes during which the MnO2 electrode is reduced and intercalate Na+ while the

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exists in the prepared MnO2 and the amount is 19.9 mg/g. In addition, it has been reported

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that a certain amount of H3O+ exists in MnO2.34 During the CDI tests, K+ and H3O+ in the

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MnO2 structure were gradually replaced by Na+,35 which can be demonstrated by the EDS

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results shown in Figure S2.

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For MnO2//AC and AC//AC-QPVP, negligible changes in the effluent NaCl

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concentration were observed (Figure S3a). However, they consumed comparable charge with

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AC//AC and MnO2//AC-QPVP (Figure S3b), indicating their low charge efficiency. It is

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supposed that the migration of a single kind of ion between the electrodes rather than the

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simultaneous removal/release of sodium and chloride ions dominates in MnO2//AC and

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AC//AC-QPVP, which results in their poor desalination performance.

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The NaCl concentration variation range of MnO2//AC-QPVP increases steadily as the

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cell voltage increases from 0.6 V to 1.4 V, which indicates that the operating voltage window

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of MnO2//AC-QPVP can reach 1.4 V. From Figure 1b, it can be seen that the current density

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of AC//AC and MnO2//AC-QPVP increases with the applied cell voltage, indicating a gradual

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increase in the charge passed.

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Figure 1. Effluent NaCl concentration profiles (a) and current density (b) of AC//AC and

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MnO2//AC-QPVP at different cell voltages in 500 mg/L NaCl.

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Figure 2 shows the SAC of AC//AC and MnO2//AC-QPVP according to eqs 1 and 3. As

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the cell voltage increases from 0.6 V to 0.8, 1.0, 1.2 and 1.4 V, the SAC of MnO2//AC-QPVP

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increases from 6.0 mg/g to 8.0, 10.0, 11.9 and 14.4 mg/g, respectively, while that of AC//AC

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is 3.8,6.3, 9.0, 9.7 and 9.7 mg/g, respectively (Figure 2a).

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Figure 2. SAC (a) and charge efficiency during charging (b) of AC//AC and

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MnO2//AC-QPVP at different cell voltages in 500 mg/L NaCl. The average values of

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triplicate experiments are shown and the error bars represent the standard deviations.

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From Figure 2b, it can be seen that the charge efficiency of both AC//AC and

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MnO2//AC-QPVP exhibits a downward trend as the cell voltage increases, which can be

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attributed to aggravated parasitic reactions at high cell voltages. Nevertheless, charge

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efficiency of MnO2//AC-QPVP stays above 0.67 and is higher than that of AC//AC at each

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cell voltage. This can be attributed to the ion selectivity of the MnO2 and AC-QPVP

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electrodes, which can greatly diminish co-ion expulsion. The SAC and charge efficiency

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results indicate that the CDI performance of MnO2//AC-QPVP at different cell voltages is

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much better than that of AC//AC.

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The salt desorption capacity, and charge efficiency during discharging of

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MnO2//AC-QPVP at different cell voltages are shown in Figure S4. The salt desorption

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capacity of MnO2//AC-QPVP is approximately equal to its SAC. However, the charge

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efficiency during discharging is above 0.81 and higher than that during charging, which is

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because that more charge is consumed by parasitic reactions during charging.

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Cyclic performance.

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The cyclic performance of AC//AC and MnO2//AC-QPVP was investigated in 500 mg/L

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NaCl at the cell voltage of 1.0/0 V. The obtained effluent NaCl concentration profiles, current

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density and effluent pH changes during the cyclic tests are shown in Figure S5, Figure S6 and

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Figure S7, respectively.

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For AC//AC, the variation range of effluent NaCl concentration at the 285th cycle is

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much smaller than that at the 5th cycle, indicating that a serious performance degradation

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occurred (Figure S8a). As shown in Figure 3a, the SAC of AC//AC at the 5th cycle is

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calculated to be 8.3 mg/g and falls rapidly to 1.3 mg/g at the 285th cycle. The SAC retention

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ratio is only 15.7%. Correspondingly, the charge efficiency decreases from 0.61 at the 5th

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cycle to 0.13 at the 285th cycle. After 288 adsorption-desorption cycles, the polarity of the

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applied cell voltage on AC//AC was reversed. The SAC recovers to 8.2 mg/g and the charge

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efficiency goes back to 0.49. However, significant performance degradation occurs again

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during the continued cyclic test. The SAC declines to 5.3 mg/g and the charge efficiency

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For MnO2//AC-QPVP, the adsorption process at the 350th cycle becomes slower than

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that at the 5th cycle, as shown in Figure S8b. Meanwhile, the current of MnO2//AC-QPVP

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gradually decreases during the cyclic test, as shown in Figure S6. The instantaneous current

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during charging at the 5th cycle is 0.1962 while that at the 350th cycle decreases to 0.1156 A.

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Correspondingly, the ESR increases from 5.1  at the 5th cycle to 8.7  at the 350th cycle

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during the cycling. These phenomena may be related to the oxidation of the conductive agent

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(carbon black) in the anode. Despite this, most of the desalination performance of

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MnO2//AC-QPVP was retained after 350 adsorption-desorption cycles. The SAC of

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MnO2//AC-QPVP at the 5th cycle is calculated to be 8.7 mg/g. During the cyclic test, it

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increases a little first as a result of the activation of the MnO2 electrode and then decreases

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slightly to 8.3 mg/g. The SAC retention ratio is as high as 95.4%. To demonstrate the

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reproducibility of the results, the cyclic performance of another MnO2//AC-QPVP cell is

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provided in Figure S9. Its SAC at the 5th cycle and the 350th cycle is 8.4 mg/g and 7.6 mg/g,

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respectively, and the SAC retention ratio is 90.5%.

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Figure 3. SAC (a) and charge efficiency during charging (b) of AC//AC and

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MnO2//AC-QPVP during 350 adsorption-desorption cycles at the cell voltage of 1.0/0 V in

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500 mg/L NaCl.

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Charge efficiency of MnO2//AC-QPVP maintains above 0.8 during the cyclic test and is

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much higher than that of AC//AC. In a word, MnO2//AC-QPVP exhibited much better cyclic

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stability than AC//AC and the i-CDI cell with a negatively charged carbon anode reported in

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our previous work.23 The improved cyclic stability is attributed to the employment of the

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MnO2 electrode, which avoided the use of carbon anodes and the consequent irreversible

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Environmental implications.

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The concentration of Mn in the tank was tested by the ICP-AES method to evaluate the

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influences of MnO2 on the quality of produced water. After MnO2//AC-QPVP was tested for

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350 adsorption-desorption cycles, the concentration of Mn in the tank is 2.9 g/L, which is

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much lower than the usually acceptable level for drinking water (100 g/L). Therefore, the

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impact of the MnO2 electrode on the quality of the produced water is negligible. In summary,

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this work demonstrated a novel strategy to enhance the cyclic stability of CDI by using

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non-carbon MnO2 as the anode material of CDI, which can be extended to other

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pseudocapacitive electrode materials and may pave the way for the large-scale industrial

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application of CDI.

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ASSOCIATED CONTENT

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Supporting Information. Structure and morphology of MnO2; EDS spectra of the MnO2

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electrodes; CDI performance of MnO2//AC and AC//AC-QPVP; salt desorption capacity, and

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charge efficiency during discharging of MnO2// AC-QPVP; effluent NaCl concentration

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profiles, current density and effluent pH changes of AC//AC and MnO2//AC-QPVP during

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the cyclic tests; adsorption curves of AC//AC and MnO2//AC-QPVP at the start and end of

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the cyclic test; changes in SAC of another MnO2// AC-QPVP cell during cycling.

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NOTES

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The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC,

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No. 21336001), and the Qaidam Salt Lake Chemical Joint Research Fund Project of NSFC 14 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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and Qinghai Province State People's Government (No. U1507103).

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