期刊
CHEMOSPHERE
卷 307, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135672
关键词
Polymer particles; Beads; Removal; Isolation; Separation
资金
- SeoulTech (Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
The study demonstrated the potential advantages of using magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for efficiently removing microplastic particles from water. Results showed that hydrophobic interactions played a key role in the formation of complexes between iron oxide and PS particles, and increasing the amount of iron oxide nanoparticles improved the adsorption performance. The ability of iron oxide particles to adsorb PS particles was inhibited by ions in environmental freshwater samples, but could be recovered through a desorption process.
Microplastics are able to pass through many filtration systems due to their small sizes, making it difficult to remove them from, for example, water. In this study, we evaluated the ability of using magnetic iron oxide (Fe3O4) nanoparticles to achieve the adsorptive removal of micron-sized polystyrene (microPS) particles. Application of a magnet for 3 min to an aqueous sample of microPS particles mixed with iron oxide nanoparticles for 1 min was able to effectively remove the microPS particles from the water. Transmission electron microscopy images of such samples showed the formation of Fe3O4-PS complexes due to the adsorption of PS particles onto iron oxide nanoparticles. This adsorption followed the pseudo-first order kinetic and Langmuir isotherm model. Hydrophobic interactions were concluded from our experiments to be the main interactions involved in the aggregation of iron oxide with PS particles. Ions present in an environmental freshwater sample inhibited the ability of iron oxide particles to become adsorbed PS particles, but the adsorption performance was improved by increasing the amount of iron oxide particles. The iron oxide particles could be recovered from the Fe3O4-PS complexes by desorption process. Our study showed the potential advantages of iron oxide particles for removing environmental pollutants of microplastics via highly efficient and environmental-friendly procedure.
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