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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
Volume 606, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125425
Keywords
Mesoporous silica; Hydroxyethyl cellulose; Metal incorporation; Methylene blue; Adsorption properties
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21403158, 21978226]
- Program for Excellent Young Scientific and Technological Innovation Team of Hubei Provincial Department of Education, China [T201506]
- 10th Graduate Innovative Fund of Wuhan Institute of Technology [CX2018007]
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A novel worm-like mesoporous silica (denoted as HECMS) was prepared using the sol-gel method employing hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) as a template and sodium silicate nonahydrate as the silica source. Then, Cu and Ce doped mesoporous silica (Cu-HECMS/Ce-HECMS) were prepared using the sol-gel method in one-pot condensation. The obtained materials were characterized using X-ray diffraction, N-2 adsorption-desorption, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The BET specific surface area, pore volume and average pore size of HECMS were found to be 344.92 m(2)/g, 0.56 cm(3)/g and 5.85 nm, respectively. After the metal incorporation, the Cu-HECMS/Ce-HECMS maintained the worm-like mesoporous structure. HECMS, Cu-HECMS and Ce-HECMS were evaluated as adsorbents for the removal of methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solutions. The isotherms and kinetics corresponded to Freundlich isotherm and pseudo-second-order kinetic model, respectively. The adsorption capacity of Ce-HECMS was found to be 349.15 mg/g, while that of Cu-HECMS was 284.60 mg/g. In comparison, the corresponding adsorption capacity of HECMS was 282.08 mg/g.
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