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An Efficient Method for Selective Desalination of Radioactive Iodine Anions by Using Gold Nanoparticles-Embedded Membrane Filter
Published on: July 13, 2018
Construction of hydrophobic interface on natural biomaterials for higher efficient and reversible radioactive iodine
Baozhan Zheng1, Xiaoxia Liu2, Jing Hu2
1College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Wangjiang Road, Chengdu 610064, PR China; Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry & Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, China.
Abstract:
For the pollution of radioactive materials, it is of great importance to develop efficient adsorbents for radioactive iodine adsorption in aqueous solution. In this work, a simple and green strategy was developed to construct hydrophobic surface on natural cotton fibers (n-CF) based on organic-soluble carbon dots (OCDs) for the first time. The results demonstrated the successful constructed hydrophobic n-CF@OCDs expressed excellent stability and selectivity for iodine (I2) adsorption in water. The maximum adsorption capacity for I2 on n-CF@OCDs is calculated to be 190.1 mg g-1, which is about 6.8 times higher than that of n-CF (28.1 mg g-1), this highly I2 adsorption efficiency should be attributed to the hydrophobic properties of adsorbent. The adsorption mechanism was also discussed in this work. In addition, the adsorbed I2 could be desorbed easily with a simple reductive process at ambient conditions, which can lead to not only the restore of I2 but also the recycling of adsorbent, illustrating their good practicability. Furthermore, this universal strategy can also be used for construction of hydrophobic surface on various natural biomaterials, demonstrating its potential application in constructing of hydrophobic surface and used for the adsorption and removal of nonpolar pollutions or radioactive waste in aqueous solutions.
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