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- Title
Potential‐Dependent, Switchable Ion Selectivity in Aqueous Media Using Titanium Disulfide.
- Authors
Srimuk, Pattarachai; Lee, Juhan; Fleischmann, Simon; Aslan, Mesut; Kim, Choonsoo; Presser, Volker
- Abstract
Abstract: The selective removal of ions by an electrochemical process is a promising approach to enable various water‐treatment applications such as water softening or heavy‐metal removal. Ion intercalation materials have been investigated for their intrinsic ability to prefer one specific ion over others, showing a preference for (small) monovalent ions over multivalent species. In this work, we present a fundamentally different approach: tunable ion selectivity not by modifying the electrode material, but by changing the operational voltage. We used titanium disulfide, which shows distinctly different potentials for the intercalation of different cations and formed binder‐free composite electrodes with carbon nanotubes. Capitalizing on this potential difference, we demonstrated controllable cation selectivity by online monitoring the effluent stream during electrochemical operation by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry of aqueous 50 m m CsCl and MgCl2. We obtained a molar selectivity of Mg2+ over Cs+ of 31 (strong Mg preference) in the potential range between −396 mV and −220 mV versus Ag/AgCl. By adjusting the operational potential window from −219 mV to +26 mV versus Ag/AgCl, Cs+ was preferred over Mg2+ by 1.7 times (Cs preference).
- Subjects
DISULFIDES; AQUEOUS solutions; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MONOVALENT cations; WATER softening
- Publication
ChemSusChem, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 13, p2091
- ISSN
1864-5631
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cssc.201800452