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Core-Shell Structured Magnetic Carboxymethyl Cellulose-Based Hydrogel Nanosorbents for Effective Adsorption of Methylene Blue from Aqueous Solution

Journal

POLYMERS
Volume 13, Issue 18, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym13183054

Keywords

nanosorbents; magnetic nanocomposite; dye adsorption; hydrogel; methylene blue

Funding

  1. National Nature Science Foundation of China [21908202]
  2. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project [2020M671794]

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This study focused on the effective removal of methylene blue dyes from aqueous solutions using a novel magnetic polymer nanocomposite, which showed high adsorption capacity at neutral pH. The physico-chemical properties, adsorption performance, and adsorption mechanisms were analyzed, with the nanosorbent demonstrating good reusability over multiple sorption/desorption cycles.
This article reports effective removal of methylene blue (MB) dyes from aqueous solutions using a novel magnetic polymer nanocomposite. The core-shell structured nanosorbents was fabricated via coating Fe3O4 nanoparticles with a layer of hydrogel material, that synthesized by carboxymethyl cellulose cross-linked with poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylamide). Some physico-chemical properties of the nanosorbents were characterized by various testing methods. The nanosorbent could be easily separated from aqueous solutions by an external magnetic field and the mass fraction of outer hydrogel shell was 20.3 wt%. The adsorption performance was investigated as the effects of solution pH, adsorbent content, initial dye concentration, and contact time. The maximum adsorption capacity was obtained at neutral pH of 7 with a sorbent dose of 1.5 g L-1. The experimental data of MB adsorption were fit to Langmuir isotherm model and Pseudo-second-order kinetic model with maximum adsorption of 34.3 mg g(-1). XPS technique was applied to study the mechanism of adsorption, electrostatic attraction and physically adsorption may control the adsorption behavior of the composite nanosorbents. In addition, a good reusability of 83.5% MB recovering with adsorption capacity decreasing by 16.5% over five cycles of sorption/desorption was observed.

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