TY - JOUR
T1 - Adsorption of nicotine in aqueous solution by a defective graphene oxide
AU - Liu, Shou Heng
AU - Tang, Wen Ting
AU - Yang, Yun Han
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the funding supports from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (Contract No.: MOST 105-2221-E-006-015-MY5 ).
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - Extensive concerns have been focused on the emerging contaminants including nicotine in the aquatic system recently. Graphene oxide (GO) and modified graphene oxides (GO-COOH and defective GO-COOH) are used as effective adsorbents to remove nicotine from aqueous solution. The adsorption isotherms and kinetics of the adsorbents all fit well with Langmuir model and pseudo-second-order model, respectively. The thermodynamic studies show that the adsorption is an exothermic and spontaneous process. The influence of pH and ionic solution strength on the adsorbents is also investigated. The maximum adsorption capacity can be observed at pH value of ca. 8. The adsorption capacities of nicotine are decreased upon the increase of sodium ion concentration. Among all the adsorbents, the defective GO-COOH adsorbents possess the maximum adsorption capacity of nicotine of 196.5 mg g−1 obtained from Langmuir isotherm. In regeneration experiments, the defective GO-COOH adsorbents can maintain 95.1% of adsorption capacity after five times of cyclic adsorption-desorption processes. The adsorbents are identified by Fourier transform infrared, 13C solid-state magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance, X-ray photoelectron and Raman spectroscopies to determine the adsorption mechanisms and structure on the adsorbents. It can be deduced that the surpassing performance of defective GO-COOH may be ascribed to the unique adsorption mechanism of defects, the enhanced π–π interaction and cation-π bonding. The highly-efficient and stable features enable the defective GO-COOH a promising adsorbent to eliminate nicotine from water.
AB - Extensive concerns have been focused on the emerging contaminants including nicotine in the aquatic system recently. Graphene oxide (GO) and modified graphene oxides (GO-COOH and defective GO-COOH) are used as effective adsorbents to remove nicotine from aqueous solution. The adsorption isotherms and kinetics of the adsorbents all fit well with Langmuir model and pseudo-second-order model, respectively. The thermodynamic studies show that the adsorption is an exothermic and spontaneous process. The influence of pH and ionic solution strength on the adsorbents is also investigated. The maximum adsorption capacity can be observed at pH value of ca. 8. The adsorption capacities of nicotine are decreased upon the increase of sodium ion concentration. Among all the adsorbents, the defective GO-COOH adsorbents possess the maximum adsorption capacity of nicotine of 196.5 mg g−1 obtained from Langmuir isotherm. In regeneration experiments, the defective GO-COOH adsorbents can maintain 95.1% of adsorption capacity after five times of cyclic adsorption-desorption processes. The adsorbents are identified by Fourier transform infrared, 13C solid-state magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance, X-ray photoelectron and Raman spectroscopies to determine the adsorption mechanisms and structure on the adsorbents. It can be deduced that the surpassing performance of defective GO-COOH may be ascribed to the unique adsorption mechanism of defects, the enhanced π–π interaction and cation-π bonding. The highly-efficient and stable features enable the defective GO-COOH a promising adsorbent to eliminate nicotine from water.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.205
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.205
M3 - Article
C2 - 29957425
AN - SCOPUS:85048970501
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 643
SP - 507
EP - 515
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
ER -