High-Performance Membrane Capacitive Deionization Based on Metal−Organic Framework-Derived Hierarchical Carbon Structures

[Image: see text] Membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) is a simple and highly energy efficient method to convert brackish water to clean water. In this work, a high-performance MCDI electrode architecture, which is composed of three-dimensional graphene networks and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)–derived porous carbon rods, was prepared by a facile method. The obtained electrode material possesses not only the conducting networks for rapid electron transport but also the short diffusion length of ions, which exhibits excellent desalination performance with a high salt removal capacity, i.e., 37.6 mg g(–1) at 1.2 V in 1000 mg L(–1) NaCl solution. This strategy can be extended to other MOF-derived MCDI electrodes.