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INORGANICS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/inorganics11010044
Keywords
calcium oxide-doped carbon nitride nanostructures; basic fuchsine; elimination mechanism; pi-pi stacking
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A cost-effective approach of adsorption technique using carbon-based materials and metal oxide was applied to remove organic dyes from contaminated wastewater. The research demonstrated that calcium oxide-doped carbon nitride nanostructures showed excellent adsorption capacity for basic fuchsine dyes, and could be easily recovered and reused in continuous cycles.
Removing organic dyes from contaminated wastewater resulting from industrial effluents with a cost-effective approach addresses a major global challenge. The adsorption technique onto carbon-based materials and metal oxide is one of the most effective dye removal procedures. The current work aimed to evaluate the application of calcium oxide-doped carbon nitride nanostructures (CaO-g-C3N4) to eliminate basic fuchsine dyes (BF) from wastewater. CaO-g-C3N4 nanosorbent were obtained via ultrasonication and characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, TEM, and BET. The TEM analysis reveals 2D nanosheet-like nanoparticle architectures with a high specific surface area (37.31 m(2)/g) for the as-fabricated CaO-g-C3N4 nanosorbent. The adsorption results demonstrated that the variation of the dye concentration impacted the elimination of BF by CaO-C3N4 while no effect of pH on the removal of BF was observed. Freundlich isotherm and Pseudo-First-order adsorption kinetics models best fitted BF adsorption onto CaO-g-C3N4. The highest adsorption capacity of CaO-g-C3N4 for BF was determined to be 813 mg. g(-1). The adsorption mechanism of BF is related to the pi-pi stacking bridging and hydrogen bond, as demonstrated by the FTIR study. CaO-g-C3N4 nanostructures may be easily recovered from solution and were effectively employed for BF elimination in at least four continuous cycles. The fabricated CaO-g-C3N4 adsorbent display excellent BF adsorption capacity and can be used as a potential sorbent in wastewater purification.
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