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Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 17, Issue 1, 026(2025)

Locally Enhanced Flow and Electric Fields Through a Tip Effect for Efficient Flow-Electrode Capacitive Deionization

Ziquan Wang1,†... Xiangfeng Chen1,†, Yuan Zhang1, Jie Ma2, Zhiqun Lin3, Amor Abdelkader4,5, Maria-Magdalena Titirici6 and Libo Deng1,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of China
  • 2Research Center for Environmental Functional Materials, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, People’s Republic of China
  • 3Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117585, Singapore
  • 4Department of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, England BH12 5BB, UK
  • 5Institut de Chimie de Nice, Université Côte d’Azur, UMR CNRS 7272, 28 Av. Valrose, 06108 Nice, France
  • 6Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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    Ziquan Wang, Xiangfeng Chen, Yuan Zhang, Jie Ma, Zhiqun Lin, Amor Abdelkader, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Libo Deng. Locally Enhanced Flow and Electric Fields Through a Tip Effect for Efficient Flow-Electrode Capacitive Deionization[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2025, 17(1): 026

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    Received: Jun. 11, 2024

    Accepted: Sep. 5, 2024

    Published Online: Feb. 12, 2025

    The Author Email: Deng Libo (Denglb@szu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s40820-024-01531-0

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