References

1. B. Shomar, M. Darwish, C. Rowell, What does integrated water resources management from local to global perspective mean? Qatar as a case study, the very rich country with no water, Water Resour. Manage., 28 (2014) 2781–2791.
2. N. Ghaffour, T.M. Missimer, G.L. Amy, Technical review and evaluation of the economics of water desalination: current and future challenges for better water supply sustainability, Desalination, 309 (2013) 197–207.
3. F.A. AlMarzooqi, A.A. Al Ghaferi, I. Saadat, N. Hilal, Application of capacitive deionisation in water desalination: a review, Desalination, 342 (2014) 3–15.
4. S. Porada, R. Zhao, A. van der Wal, V. Presser, P.M. Biesheuvel, Review on the science and technology of water desalination by capacitive deionization, Prog. Mater. Sci., 58 (2013) 1388–1442.
5. T. Kim, J. Yoon, CDI ragone plot as a functional tool to evaluate desalination performance in capacitive deionization, RSC Adv., 5 (2015) 1456–1461.
6. M.E. Suss, S. Porada, X. Sun, P.M. Biesheuvel, J. Yoon, V. Presser, Water desalination via capacitive deionization: what is it and what can we expect from it?, Energy Environ. Sci., 8 (2015) 2296–2319.
7. F. Alvarez-Gonzalez, J. Martin-Ramos, J. Diaz Gonzalez, J. Martinez, A. Pernia, Energy recovery optimization of an experimental CDI desalination system, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., 63 (2016) 1586–1597.
8. D.K. Kohli, S. Bhartiya, A. Singh, R. Singh, M.K. Singh, P.K. Gupta, Capacitive deionization of ground water using carbon aerogel based electrodes, Desal. Wat. Treat., 57 (2016) 26871–26879.
9. F. Ahmad, S.J. Khan, Y. Jamal, H. Kamran, A. Ahsan, M. Ahmad, A. Khan, Desalination of brackish water using capacitive deionization (CDI) technology, Desal. Wat. Treat., 57 (2015) 7659–7666.
10. H. Li, F. Zaviska, S. Liang, J. Li, L. He, H.Y. Yang, A high charge efficiency electrode by self-assembling sulphonated reduced graphene oxide onto carbon fibre: towards enhanced capacitive deionization, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2 (2014) 3484.
11. Q. Liu, Y. Wang, Y. Zhang, S. Xu, J. Wang, Effect of dopants on the adsorbing performance of polypyrrole/graphite electrodes for capacitive deionization process, Synth. Methods, 162 (2012) 655–661.
12. H. Li, Y. Gao, L. Pan, Y. Zhang, Y. Chen, Z. Sun, Electrosorptive desalination by carbon nanotubes and nanofibres electrodes and ion-exchange membranes, Water Res., 42 (2008) 4923–4928.
13. R. Allen, L. Pan, G.G. Fuller, Z. Bao, Using in-situ polymerization of conductive polymers to enhance the electrical properties of solution-processed carbon nanotube films and fibers, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 6 (2014) 9966–9974.
14. Y. Liu, C. Nie, X. Liu, X. Xu, Z. Sun, L. Pan, Review on carbonbased composite materials for capacitive deionization, RSC Adv., 5 (2015) 15205–15225.
15. J. Liu, M. Lu, J. Yang, J. Cheng, W. Cai, Capacitive desalination of ZnO/activated carbon asymmetric capacitor and mechanism analysis, Electrochim. Acta, 151 (2015) 312–318.
16. J. Huang, B.G. Sumpter, V. Meunier, Theoretical model for nanoporous carbon supercapacitors, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 120 (2008) 530–534.
17. Y. Wang, L. Zhang, Y. Wu, S. Xu, J. Wang, Polypyrrole/carbon nanotube composites as cathode material for performance enhancing of capacitive deionization technology, Desalination, 354 (2014) 62–67.
18. Y. Wang, X. Han, R. Wang, S. Xu, J. Wang, Preparation optimization on the coating-type polypyrrole/carbon nanotube composite electrode for capacitive deionization, Electrochim. Acta, 182 (2015) 81–88.
19. T. Kim, H.D. Yoo, S.M. Oh, J. Yoon, Potential sweep method to evaluate rate capability in capacitive deionization, Electrochim. Acta, 139 (2014) 374–380.
20. X.-J. Chen, Y. Wang, S.-C. Xu, Y.-J. Zhang, Y.-F. Wu, J.-X. Wang, Modeling condition optimization and desalting performance evaluation of carbon nanotubes electrode, Chem. Ind. Eng., 30 (2013) 42–47.
21. X. Lu, H. Dou, C. Yuan, S. Yang, L. Hao, F. Zhang, L. Shen, L. Zhang, X. Zhang, Polypyrrole/carbon nanotube nanocomposite enhanced the electrochemical capacitance of flexible graphene film for supercapacitors, J. Power Sources, 197 (2012) 319–324.
22. C.-H. Hou, J.-F. Huang, H.-R. Lin, B.-Y. Wang, Preparation of activated carbon sheet electrode assisted electrosorption process, J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Eng., 43 (2012) 473–479.
23. X. Zhang, R.B. Bai, Surface electric properties of polypyrrole in aqueous solutions, Langmuir, 19 (2003) 10703–10709.
24. T. Kim, J. Yoon, Relationship between capacitance of activated carbon composite electrodes measured at a low electrolyte concentration and their desalination performance in capacitive deionization, J. Electroanal. Chem., 704 (2013) 169–174.