Surfactant assisted Ce–Fe mixed oxide decorated multiwalled carbon nanotubes and their arsenic adsorption performance

By Bo Chen, Zhiliang Zhu, Jie Ma, Yanling Qiu, Junhong Chen. 2013

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In this study, a novel mixed Ce–Fe oxide decorated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CF-CNTs) material was prepared through a surfactant assisted method. The CF-CNTs material was characterized by various methods, including BET surface area analysis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). It was found that the Ce–Fe oxide was uniformly dispersed on the surface of CNTs with a mean size of 7.0 nm. The obtained CF-CNTs material was used as an adsorbent to remove arsenic from aqueous solutions. The adsorption experimental results showed that this CF-CNTs material had an excellent adsorption performance for As(V) and As(III). The adsorption processes of As(V) and As(III) could be well described by the pseudo-second-order model. The mechanistic study showed that different interactions were involved in As(V) adsorption, including electrostatic attraction and surface complexation. For As(III) adsorption, partial As(III) was oxidized to As(V) followed by the simultaneous adsorption of As(V) and As(III). It was also found that intra-particle diffusion existed in the process of adsorption on CF-CNTs, but that it was not the only rate-limiting step. The resulting CF-CNTs material can be used in a broad pH range, which suggests its great potential for the decontamination of arsenic-polluted water.

Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Water Science and Technology

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