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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 433, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.133844
Keywords
Graphene oxide; Radionuclides; Fe(II); Mediation efficiency
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21777102]
- Natural ScienceNatural Science Founda-tion of Zhejiang Province of Zhejiang Province [LQ19E030017]
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In this study, graphene oxide (GO) was found to mediate the reduction of U(VI), Re(VII), Se(VI), and Se(IV) in aqueous Fe(II) solution. The enhanced reduction effects of GO were attributed to facilitated electron transfer and decreased redox potential. The presence of dissolved fulvic acid (FA) significantly promoted GO-mediated reduction. GO plays an important role in mediating the reductive immobilization of radionuclides in redox-stratified environments.
Although thermodynamically feasible, reduction of U(VI), Re(VII), Se(VI) and Se(IV) in homogeneous Fe(II) solution could be hardly observed. Whereas, surface-mediated reduction by Fe(II) has been generally regarded as a major pathway for the immobilization of these radionuclides. In this paper, graphene oxide (GO) was firstly revealed to mediate the reduction of U(VI), Re(VII), Se(VI) and Se(IV) by aqueous Fe(II) via a combined batch, DFT calculation and spectroscopic investigation. The kinetics for all adsorption systems could be fitted by the pseudo-second-order model, which was indicative of a chemical interaction. The isotherms for all reaction systems could be described by the Freundlich model better than that by the Langmuir model. Spectroscopic studies indicated that the enhancement effects of GO were attributable to the facilitated electron transfer by the graphitic surfaces and particularly to the decreased Fe(III)-Fe(II) redox potential by surface adsorption of Fe(II) with O-bearing functional groups on GO. Additionally, the presence of coexisting dissolved fulvic acid (FA) could significantly promoted GO-mediated reduction, by enhancing the electron shuttle ability of GO. Therefore, owning to the combined strong mediation efficiency and excellent adsorption affinity, GO exhibited an important role in mediating the reductive immobilization of radionuclides in a wide range of redox-stratified environments.
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