Journal
CARBON
Volume 41, Issue 8, Pages 1545-1550Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6223(03)00079-4
Keywords
graphite oxide; intercalation; X-ray diffraction; adsorption
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Adsorption properties of graphite oxides hydrophobized by n-hexadecylamine, (C16)(x)GO, were investigated using pyrene molecules as a model of nonionic organic contaminants. A large quantity of pyrene (28.5 mg/g) was adsorbed from a water-ethanol mixture (1:2) containing 2 mM of pyrene when (C16)(0.6)GO was used. The isotherm of pyrene adsorption was better described by Freundlich equation rather than Langmuir equation, which indicated a single adsorption mechanism was involved. The change in the amount of adsorbed pyrene as a function of amine content in GO was very similar to that which occurs upon introduction of pyrene into (C16)(x)GO films from chloroform solution, as determined by X-ray measurements. This suggests that pyrene molecules were adsorbed not only on the outer surface but also within the interlayer space of the intercalation compound. Swelling of the intercalation compound by ethanol can render the interlayers more organophilic and make access to hexadecylamine molecules bonded to the graphite oxide layer easier for pyrene molecules, especially in (C16)(x)GOs with lower amine contents. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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