Journal
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 539, Issue -, Pages 425-432Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.12.090
Keywords
Sustainability; Cotton waste; Catalysis; BPA; Carbon microtubes
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- Deakin University PhD scholarship
- Australian Research Council World Class Future Fibre Industry Transformation Research Hub [IH140100018]
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The development of high performance, sustainable and inexpensive catalyst for environmental applications is a highly innovative and promising approach to meet the increasing demands from society on water treatment and pollution remediation. Carbon microtube (CMT) synthesized from cotton waste was successfully developed by direct pyrolysis of cotton bundle in argon atmosphere in different carbonization temperature (900, 1100, 1300 and 1500 degrees C). Carbon microtubes have been used for removal of Bisphenol A (BPA) in wastewater and showed the optimum performance for CMT11 and CMT 13. The mechanism involved in this efficient water treatment was ascribed to the strong pi-pi interaction and hydrogen bonds between CMT and BPA. Given the repeatability, high removal performance and cost effectiveness of the cotton based carbon microtubes when compared to other well-known catalysts such as carbon nanotubes, the carbon microtubes demonstrated great potential as low-cost, sustainable and effective catalyst for wastewater treatment. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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