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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 310, Issue -, Pages 235-245Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.02.045
Keywords
Carbon nanotubes; Adsorption; Emerging pharmaceuticals; Isotherm; Mechanism
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- State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research [2014RCDW03, 2016RCDW02]
- Shanghai Pujiang Program [15PJD014]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2015M571523]
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The adsorption behavior of different emerging contaminants (3 chloramphenicols, 7 sulfonamides, and 3 non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals) on five types of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), and the underlying factors were studied. Adsorption equilibriums were reached within 12 h for all compounds, and well fitted by the Freundlich isotherm model. The adsorption affinity of pharmaceuticals was positively related to the specific surface area of MWCNTs. The solution pH was an important parameter of pharmaceutical adsorption on MWCNTs, due to its impacts on the chemical speciation of pharmaceuticals and the surface electrical property of MWCNTs. The adsorption of ionizable pharmaceuticals decreased in varying degrees with the increased ionic strength. MWCNT-10 was found to be the strongest adsorbent in this study, and the Freundlich constant (Kt) values were 353-2814mmol(1-n) L-n/kg, 571-618 mmol(1-n) L1-n/kg, and 317-1522 mmol(1-n)L(n)/kg for sulfonamides, chloramphenicols, and non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals, respectively. The different adsorption affinity of sulfonamides might contribute to the different hydrophobic of heterocyclic substituents, while chloramphenicols adsorption was affected by the charge distribution in aromatic rings via substituent effects. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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