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Bansal R, Hald N, Martinez R, Chan CK, Westerhoff P, Garcia-Segura S. Self-supported polypyrrole flexible electrodes for electrochemical reduction of nitrite. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 338:139582. [PMID: 37478997 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Revised: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/18/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
Abstract
The efficiency of an electrochemical oxidation/reduction process strongly depends on the working electrode's surface area to volume ratio. By making electrodes flexible and employing different configurations such as roll-to-roll membrane, the surface area to volume ratio can be enhanced, therefore improving the overall efficiency of electrochemical processes. Conductive polymers emerge as a new framework to enable alternative electrochemical water treatment cell configurations. Self-standing polypyrrole flexible electrodes were synthesized by electropolymerization and evaluated on the treatment of an oxyanion pollutant: nitrite. Mechanical characterization through stress-strain curves and bending tests demonstrated high electrode resilience that sustained over 1000 bending cycles without impacting mechanical integrity or electrocatalytic responses. The electrocatalytic response towards nitrite reduction was assessed under linear scan voltammetry (LSV) and removal performance evaluated under potentiostatic conditions reaching 79% abatement of initial concentrations of nitrite of 15 mg/L [NO2--N]. Self-standing flexible electrodes appear as a novel framework to enable modular compact water treatment unit designs that maximize the electrode area/volume ratio and substitute expensive platinum group metal (PGMs) electrocatalysts.
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- Rishabh Bansal
- Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), United States; School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3005, United States
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- Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), United States; School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3005, United States
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- Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), United States; School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3005, United States
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- Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), United States; School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3005, United States
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- Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), United States; School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3005, United States
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- Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), United States; School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3005, United States.
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Insights on the capacitance degradation of polypyrrole nanowires during prolonged cycling. Polym Degrad Stab 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2022.110034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Pavithra S, Keerthana SP, Yuvakumar R, Senthil Kumar P, Rajesh S, Vidhya B, Sakunthala A. Preparation of β-FeOOH by ultrasound assisted precipitation route for aqueous supercapacitor applications. INORG NANO-MET CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/24701556.2021.1988978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- S. Pavithra
- Department of Applied Physics, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Physics, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Physics, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Applied Physics, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Applied Physics, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Applied Physics, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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Wang H, Shao Y, Mei S, Lu Y, Zhang M, Sun JK, Matyjaszewski K, Antonietti M, Yuan J. Polymer-Derived Heteroatom-Doped Porous Carbon Materials. Chem Rev 2020; 120:9363-9419. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Hong Wang
- Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials (Ministry of Education), Institute of Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials (Ministry of Education), Institute of Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China
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- Department for Electrochemical Energy Storage, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany
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- Department for Electrochemical Energy Storage, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Colloid Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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A Novel Hierarchically Porous Polypyrrole Sphere Modified Separator for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries. Polymers (Basel) 2019; 11:polym11081344. [PMID: 31412607 PMCID: PMC6723804 DOI: 10.3390/polym11081344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2019] [Revised: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The commercialization of Lithium-sulfur batteries was limited by the polysulfide shuttle effect, and modifying the routine separator was an effective method to solve this problem. In this work, a novel hierarchically porous polypyrrole sphere (PPS) was successfully prepared by using silica as hard-templates. As-prepared PPS was slurry-coated on the separator, which could reduce the polarization phenomenon of the sulfur cathode, and efficiently immobilize polysulfides. As expected, high sulfur utilization was achieved by suppressing the shuttle effect. When tested in the lithium-sulfur battery, it exhibited a high capacity of 855 mAh·g-1 after 100 cycles at 0.2 C, and delivered a reversible capacity of 507 mAh·g-1 at 3 C, showing excellent electrochemical performance.
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A hydrogel-coated porous sulfur particle as volume-accommodable, conductivity-improved, and polysulfide-adsorptive cathode for lithium‑sulfur batteries. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2019.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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