Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 550, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.149313
Keywords
Loofah activated carbon; Adsorption; Antibiotics; Multi-level pollutants
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51602193, 51972055, 21704067, 51701022, 32072304]
- Shanghai Chen Guang project [16CG63]
- Shenzhen Science and Technology Research Project [JCYJ20170818093553012, JCYJ20180508152903208]
- Shenzhen Bay Laboratory Open Program [SZBL2020090501002]
- Natural Science Foundation of Top Talent of SZTU [20200201]
- Shenzhen Pengcheng Scholar Program
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/V027433/1]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hu'nan Province [2018JJ3528]
- Self-made Experimental Equipment Foundation of Shenzhen Technology University
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Biochar adsorbents, particularly the LAC-loaded agarose aerogel adsorbents, are effective in adsorbing antibiotic contaminants due to their high specific surface areas and abundant active surface sites. The unique hierarchical structures of LAC contribute significantly to the adsorption capacity of antibiotics.
For antibiotic contaminants, biochar adsorbents have been regarded as one of the most suitable materials due to their safety for human health and good adsorption performance. In this study, loofah activated carbon (LAC) was prepared by a simple high temperature carbonization process, while mixing LAC with agarose solution under stirring at 90 degrees C, after which LAC-loaded agarose aerogel (LAC-AA) adsorbents could be obtained by freeze-dried under a vacuum condition. The LAC is consisted of hierarchical laminae-trestle-laminae (L-T-L) microstructure with highly ordered, whose surfaces are fully covered by nanoscale protrusions. The unique hierarchical structures possessing high specific surface areas (similar to 736.86 m(2) g-1) and abundant active surface sites, which contribute significantly to the adsorption of antibiotics (to name a few, tetracycline (TC), ofloxacin (OFO) and norfloxacin (NFO)). The results indicate that the capacity of adsorption towards TC, NFO and OFO (1-40 ppm) by the LAC-loaded agarose aerogel (LAC-AA) adsorbents is 537.6, 434.8 and 581.4 mg g(-1), respectively, which is significantly greater than that of currently-available adsorbents. In parallel, the atomic adsorption model's simulation further confirms that the OFO is prone to be adsorbed on the LAC with the lowest adsorption energy that resulted in the largest adsorption capacity.
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