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Title: High-Performance Capacitive Deionization Disinfection of Water with Graphene Oxide-graft-Quaternized Chitosan Nanohybrid Electrode Coating
Authors: Wang, Yilei
El-Deen, Ahmed G.
Li, Peng
Oh, Bernice Hui Lin
Guo, Zanru
Khin, Mya Mya
Vikhe, Yogesh Shankar
Wang, Jing
Hu, Rebecca G.
Boom, Remko M.
Kline, Kimberly A.
Becker, David Lawrence
Duan, Hongwei
Chan-Park, Mary B.
Keywords: Water disinfection
Capacitive deionization
Issue Date: 2015
Source: Wang, Y., El-Deen, A. G., Li, P., Oh, B. H., Guo, Z., Khin, M. M., et al. (2015). High-Performance Capacitive Deionization Disinfection of Water with Graphene Oxide-graft-Quaternized Chitosan Nanohybrid Electrode Coating. ACS Nano, 9(10), 10142-10157.
Series/Report no.: ACS Nano
Abstract: Water disinfection materials should ideally be broad-spectrum-active, nonleachable, and noncontaminating to the liquid needing sterilization. Herein, we demonstrate a high-performance capacitive deionization disinfection (CDID) electrode made by coating an activated carbon (AC) electrode with cationic nanohybrids of graphene oxide-graft-quaternized chitosan (GO-QC). Our GO-QC/AC CDID electrode can achieve at least 99.9999% killing (i.e., 6 log reduction) of Escherichia coli in water flowing continuously through the CDID cell. Without the GO-QC coating, the AC electrode alone cannot kill the bacteria and adsorbs a much smaller fraction (<82.8 ± 1.8%) of E. coli from the same biocontaminated water. Our CDID process consists of alternating cycles of water disinfection followed by electrode regeneration, each a few minutes duration, so that this water disinfection process can be continuous and it only needs a small electrode voltage (2 V). With a typical brackish water biocontamination (with 104 CFU mL–1 bacteria), the GO-QC/AC electrodes can kill 99.99% of the E. coli in water for 5 h. The disinfecting GO-QC is securely attached on the AC electrode surface, so that it is noncontaminating to water, unlike many other chemicals used today. The GO-QC nanohybrids have excellent intrinsic antimicrobial properties in suspension form. Further, the GO component contributes toward the needed surface conductivity of the CDID electrode. This CDID process offers an economical method toward ultrafast, contaminant-free, and continuous killing of bacteria in biocontaminated water. The proposed strategy introduces a green in situ disinfectant approach for water purification.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83397
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41422
ISSN: 1936-0851
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03763
Schools: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering 
School of Biological Sciences 
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) 
Research Centres: Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering 
Rights: © 2016 American Chemical Society. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by ACS Nano, American Chemical Society. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b03763].
Fulltext Permission: open
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