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Dezhi Yang1, Sai Kumar Tammina2, Xiao Li3
1Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan Province 650500, China; Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan Province 650500, China.
Abstract:
Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have already proven their efficacy in the disposal of a wide array of environmental contaminants in recent years. However, the difficulties in dispersibility and agglomeration of MNPs arising from its own physical and chemical properties limit its large-scale application. Herein, we fabricated the carbon dots/fatty acid-coated MNPs (CDs/C11-Fe3O4) through a facile and simple method. To utilize the advantage of carbon dots, these limitations can be mitigated by diminishing the size of MNPs and modifying the surface of MNPs. Detailed characterization including VSM, FT-IR, XPS and TEM conformed that the higher adsorption capacity of CDs/C11-Fe3O4 is mainly attributed to low average size (<8 nm), which is obviously lower than that of C11-Fe3O4 (about 13 nm). The CDs/C11-Fe3O4 showed higher adsorption performance than that of C11-Fe3O4 nanocomposites (76.23 ng mg-1 for CDs/C11-Fe3O4 and 59.89 ng mg-1 for C11-Fe3O4). The adsorption processes of BaP on both C11-Fe3O4 and CDs/C11-Fe3O4 nanocomposites are exothermic, and well simulated by pseudo-second-order model. Moreover, the CDs/C11-Fe3O4 were also applied for the detection of BaP in large-volume water samples, which satisfies the China environmental protection standard, are promising candidates for water remediation.
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