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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 240, Issue -, Pages 244-252Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.11.088
Keywords
1-Methylimidazole-2-thiol; Conducting polymer; Dual conductive system; Magnetic carbon nanotubes; Selective photodegradation; Surface molecular imprinting
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [21306068]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20130487, BK2011460]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2012M521015]
- Innovation Programs Foundation of Jiangsu Province [CXZZ13_0693, CXZZ13_0665]
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The magnetic and dual conductive imprinted photocatalysts (MCIPs) were synthesized through the suspension polymerization method. TiO2/Fe3O4/MWCNTs, 1-methylimidazole-2-thiol and pyrrole were used as supports, template molecule and functional monomer, respectively. The MCIPs were further characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectra (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectra (UV-vis DRS), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). The result revealed that polypyrrole (PPy) was formed and well embedded in the surface imprinted layer of TiO2/Fe3O4/MWCNTs. Owing to PPy and MWCNTs, the MCIPs was equipped with dual conductivity which was particularly useful for photodegradation of 1-methylimidazole-2-thiol in aqueous solution under ultraviolet irradiation. Through a series investigation of factors, it was obvious that when the polymerization time was 24 h and the adding dose of pyrrole was 8 mmol, the resulting MCIPs obtained the highest photocatalytic ability. In addition, the photodegradation process obeyed the pseudo-first-order kinetic reaction and exhibited an excellent selective degradation ability of 1-methylimidazole-2-thiol. The degradation intermediate products and mechanism of 1-methylimidazole-2-thiol were further discussed. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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