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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 5, Issue 32, Pages 25541-25549Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra15056b
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21207157]
- Shandong Provincial Higher Educational Science and Technology Program [J12LC02]
- China Scholarship Council [201303270005]
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The adsorption of sulfamethazine (SMZ) by pristine and hydroxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes (P-MWCNTs, H-MWCNTs) was studied under varied pH, ionic strength, cations and anions in solution. The results suggest that the SMZ adsorption onto MWCNTs can be depicted well by the pseudo-second-order and Langmuir models. The adsorption of SMZ onto MWCNTs was ionic strength and pH dependent, which indicated hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions, may be the main adsorption mechanisms. The presence of cations at 0.5 mM showed different effects on SMZ adsorption. Cu2+ slightly decreased SMZ adsorption by 10% to 20% at solution pH of 2.3 and 4.9, due to the competing effect of Cu2+ with SMZ(+) and SMZ(perpendicular to). But Cu2+ increased SMZ(-) adsorption by 20% to 60% at solution pH of 7.4 and 10.0, due to the facilitating effect of the complex formation of Cu2+-SMZ. Al3+ promoted the SMZ adsorption onto P-MWCNTs, which can be attributed to the facilitating effect of Al3+ through a metal bridge, while inhibiting the SMZ adsorption by H-MWCNTs, which can be ascribed to the competing effect between Al3+ and SMZ for the negatively charged functional groups and the shielding effect of adsorbed Al3+ with a larger hydration radius at pH of 2.3, 4.9 and 7.4. SMZ adsorption was slightly decreased with the addition of 0.5 mM anions (Cl-, CO32-, SO42-, PO43-) due to the increase in density of negative charge on the MWCNTs' surface. The m-FTIR results showed that pi-pi interaction may also play an important role in the adsorption process.
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