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Coating layered double hydroxides with carbon dots for highly efficient removal of multiple dyes

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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 424, Issue -, Pages -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127613

Keywords

Layered double hydroxide; Carbon dots; Hybrids; Adsorption; Dyes

Funding

  1. projects of Science and Technology Development of Jilin Province [20210509063RQ, 20190303116SF, 202002008JC]
  2. Research and Development Project for Industrial Technology of Jilin Province [2020C028-1]
  3. Science Foundation of Distinguished Young Scholars of Jilin City [20190104158]
  4. Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals of Jilin Province

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Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) and layered double oxides (LDOs) are excellent adsorption materials for printing and wastewater treatment due to their anion exchange abilities and active sites. A versatile LDO hybrid coated with carbon dots (CDs@MgAl-LDO) was developed and showed superior adsorption performance for various dyes, following a pseudo-second-order kinetic model with high R-square values. This study provides a facile approach for preparing carbon dots-LDH hybrids with efficient dye removal capabilities.
Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) and layered double oxides (LDOs) are desirable adsorption materials for printing and wastewater treatment owing to their outstanding anion exchange abilities, abundant active sites, and eco-friendly nature. In this study, a versatile LDO hybrid coated with carbon dots (CDs@MgAl-LDO) was constructed by modifying sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate on the surface of MgAl-LDH as a carbon precursor, followed by ligand carbonization and hydrotalcite dehydration at 450 degrees C under N-2 flow. CDs@MgAl-LDO displayed a hexagonal lamellar architecture with a plate lateral size of approximately 500 nm. It had a higher BET specific surface area (28.61 m(2)/g) than MgAl-LDO (11.48 m(2)/g). X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that CDs@MgAl-LDO maintained the memory effect of LDOs and could retrieve the original structure when dispersed in water. Moreover, the modified carbon dots change the intrinsically hydrophilic nature of LDOs and help to improve the affinity for organic contaminants, including both cationic and anionic dyes. The adsorption of dyes on CDs@MgAl-LDO followed a pseudo-second-order kinetic model with correlation coefficients (R-2) ranging from 0.9901 to 0.9911 and exhibited Freundlich-type heterogeneous adsorption. It showed superior adsorption performance for three dyes, with the maximum adsorption capacity of 3628.9-5174.1 mg/g, thereby outperforming previously reported LDH-based adsorbents. This work developed a facile approach for preparing new carbon dots-LDH hybrids for the highly efficient removal of multiple dyes.

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