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Reversible Adsorption of Methylene Blue as Cationic Model Cargo onto Polyzwitterionic Magnetic Nanoparticles
Philip Biehl1,2, Moritz von der Lühe1,2, Felix H Schacher1,2
1Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstraße 10, 07743, Jena, Germany.
Abstract:
The reversible electrostatic adsorption of the cationic dye methylene blue (MB) as a model compound to polydehydroalanine (PDha)-coated magnetic multicore nanoparticles (MCNP) is presented. The pH responsiveness of the zwitterionic coating material enables reversible switching of the net surface charge of the PDha@MCNP hybrid particles by changes in pH and thus allows reversible adsorption of MB at neutral pH and desorption at low pH values. The resulting hybrid materials can be very interesting systems in the context of water purification, and the reversible adsorption is studied using UV-vis spectroscopy under varying surrounding conditions. The particles are characterized using dynamic light scattering, zeta potential measurements, transmission electron microscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis.
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