Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 198, Issue -, Pages 87-100Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.12.120
Keywords
Ciprofloxacin; Hydrogels; Immobilization; Photocatalytic degradation; Transformed products
Funding
- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
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This study developed polymeric SCZ-CH hydrogels for degrading Ciprofloxacin in the water environment. The SCZ-CH hydrogels showed high degradation efficiencies in both UV and visible lights. They also exhibited good mineralization efficiency and reusability.
Ciprofloxacin, a biotoxic micropollutant, is ubiquitously found in the water environment, which is a global concern. This study developed polymeric S-C3N4/ZnO-Chitosan (indexed as SCZ-CH) hydrogels for degrading Ciprofloxacin. The SCZ-CH hydrogels provided the Ciprofloxacin degradation efficiencies of-93% and-69% in UV and visible lights, respectively, at optimum conditions (SCZ-CH hydrogels with 2 g/L SCZ, 20 mg/L initial concentration, pH 5, and room temperature). In addition, immobilized SCZ-CH hydrogels structures enable easy separation of the SCZ catalyst from water. The spectroscopic and microscopic analyses of SCZ-CH hydrogels show multifaceted properties, like high oxygen concentrations, crystallinity, stacked structure, high roughness, and improved bandgap energy, which are responsible for the enhanced photocatalytic activity. The effects of water matrix and experimental conditions on Ciprofloxacin degradation were also studied, which suggested that the catalyst dose and solution pH have significant effects on photocatalytic activity. SCZ-CH hydrogels have shown good mineralization efficiency (-98%) and reusability (up to 10 cycles) for Ciprofloxacin removal. Superoxide radicals played an essential role in the degradation of Ciprofloxacin. The Ciprofloxacin molecules get degraded by driving radicals through oxidation, defluorination, substitution, and breaking of the rings. The proposed SCZ-CH hydrogels can be effectively used at a large scale to treat micropollutants.
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