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JOURNAL OF THE TAIWAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
Volume 62, Issue -, Pages 199-208Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2016.02.005
Keywords
Reduced graphene oxide; Mesoporous; Nanocomposites; Adsorption; Arsenic
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- Korea CCS RD Centre
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of the Korean Government
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2014M1A8A1049250] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The removal of hazardous anions is essential to supply safe drinking water. In this study mesoporous Fe2O3/TiO2 was synthesized by sol-gel route using Pluronic P123 as the structure directing agent. The synthesized mesoporous Fe2O3/TiO2 nanoparticles dispersed over the reduced graphene oxide, to suppress the aggregation of the nanoparticles and to expose more number of active sites present in the nanoparticles. The mesoporous nature of the nanoparticles was confirmed from low angle X-ray diffraction. The reduced graphene oxide supported Fe2O3/TiO2 nanoparticles was characterized by FT-IR, Raman, XPS, N-2 sorption, HR-TEM and SEM. The reduced graphene oxide supported Fe2O3/TiO2 nanoparticles was tested for the sorption of both arsenate (AsV) and arsenite (AsIII) in water. The equilibrium adsorption was attained within 15 mins for both As(III) and As(V). The maximum adsorption capacity for As(V) and As(III) was found to be 99.5 and 77.7 mgig at pH 6 and 7 respectively. The sorption was found to be high in the pH range of 6-7. The low adsorption at lower and higher pHs other than 6 and 7 was due to zero point charge of nanocomposite which is equal to 6. The IR spectrum showed characteristic vibrations for arsenate in the nanocomposite. The recyclability study of nanocomposite not only confirmed the stability but also exhibited same sorption capacity for four cycles. This nanocomposite could be used for the removal of other hazardous inorganic ions. (C) 2016 Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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