ArticleChemical science2021
Filtering and continuously separating microplastics from water using electric field gradients formed electrochemically in the absence of buffer.
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- Solar-Powered Electrokinetic Filtration using Hierarchical Porous Membranes for the Off-Grid Removal of Ultrafine Contaminants.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Microplastic separation and enrichment in microchannels under derivative electric field gradient by bipolar electrode reactions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Impacts of Micro(nano)plastics on Terrestrial Plants: Germination, Growth, and Litter.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Microfluidics as a Ray of Hope for Microplastic Pollution.Biosensors · 2023Review
- Electrokinetic separation techniques for studying nano- and microplastics.Chemical science · 2022Review
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Abstract
Here we use experiments and finite element simulations to investigate the electrokinetics within straight microchannels that contain a bipolar electrode and an unbuffered electrolyte solution. Our findings indicate that in the presence of a sufficiently high electric field, water electrolysis proceeds at the bipolar electrode and leads to variations in both solution conductivity and ionic current density along the length of the microchannel. The significance of this finding is twofold. First, the results indicate that both solution conductivity and ionic current density variations significantly contribute to yield sharp electric field gradients near the bipolar electrode poles. The key point is that ionic current density variations constitute a fundamentally new mechanism for forming electric field gradients in solution. Second, we show that the electric field gradients that form near the bipolar electrode poles in unbuffered solution are useful for continuously separating microplastics from water in a bifurcated microchannel. This result expands the potential scope of membrane-free separations using bipolar electrodes.
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