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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
卷 309, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.113142
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Adsorption; Clay mineral; Montmorillonite; gamma-Fe2O3, Rhodamine B dye; Molecular dynamic simulations
In the present work, we synthesized successfully novel magnetic montmorillonite composite gamma-Fe2O3@Mt by a ladle co-predpitation method of Fe2+ and Fe3+ in alkaline solution in the presence of montmorillonite clay mineral. The structural, morphological and chemical properties of the gamma-Fe2O3@Mt samples were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Thermogravimetric Analysis/differential thermal analysis, Scanning Electron Microscopy/Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy, Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy/Elemental Mapping, Transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area, zeta potential and magnetic properties. The adsorption process of Rhodamine B (cationic dye) onto gamma-Fe2O3@Mt was examined as a function of adsorbent amount, pH, contact time and initial dye concentration. The maximum quantity adsorbed of RhB dye onto Fe2O3@ Mt was found as 20920 mg/g. The kinetic study indicated that the adsorption equilibrium of Rhodamine B dye onto gamma-Fe2O3@Mt was obtained after 25 min. The adsorption isotherms were described by Langmuir isotherm model suggesting that the Rhodamine B dye molecules arc adsorbed homogeneously on a monolayer surface of gamma-Fe2O3@Mt. The experimental data were well fitted to a pseudosecond-order kinetic model (R-2 > 0.99). A Computational modeling was performed in order to obtain deeper mechanistic insights on the adsorption behaviour of the RhB dye molecules onto gamma-Fe2O3@Mt.composite. This modeling section include Monte Carlo space exploration for the lowest adsorption energy configurations of the RhB molecule on the raw Mt. substrate and the different gamma-Fe2O3 flat nanosurfaces, followed by molecular dynamics simulation of the titled dye molecules on real cylindrical maghemite nanosurface. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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