Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 6, Issue 11, Pages 8274-8280Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am5010865
Keywords
nickel nanowires; ferromagnetic; mercury; dithiocarbamate; water quality monitoring
Funding
- FCT (Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia) [PTDC/CTM-NAN/120668/2010]
- FEDER through program COMPETE
- FCT/FEDER [Pest-C/CTM/LA0011/2013, Pest-C/MAR/LA0017/2013]
- FCT [SFRH/BD/96731/2013, SFRH/BPD/82010/2011]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/CTM-NAN/120668/2010, SFRH/BD/96731/2013] Funding Source: FCT
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This work reports the preparation of ferromagnetic nickel nanowires (NiNW) coated with dithiocarbamate-functionalized siliceous shells and its application for the uptake of aqueous Hg(II) ions by magnetic separation. NiNW with an average diameter and length of 35 nm and 5 mu m, respectively, were firstly prepared by Ni electrodeposition in an anodic aluminum oxide template. The NiNW surfaces were then coated with siliceous shells containing dithiocarbamate groups via a one-step procedure consisting in the alkaline hydrolytic co-condensation of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and a siloxydithio-carbamate precursor (SiDTC). A small amount of these new nanoadsorbents (2.5 mg.L-1) removed 99.8% of mercury ions from aqueous solutions with concentration 50 mu g.L-1 and in less than 24 h of contact time. This outstanding removal ability is attributed to the high affinity of the sulfur donor ligands to Hg(II) species combined with the high surface area-to-volume ratio of the NiNW.
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