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Preparation of Functional Silica Using a Bioinspired Method
Published on: August 1, 2018
Most suitable amino silane molecules for surface functionalization of graphene oxide toward hexavalent chromium
JinHyeong Lee1, Jeong-Ann Park2, Hee-Gon Kim3
1Materials Architecturing Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02792, Republic of Korea; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Adsorption is a simple and effective method for the removal of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) from contaminated water. Several amino silane-graphene oxide (GO) composites with different species of amino groups (pN-GO, psN-GO, and pssN-GO; p: primary, s: secondary, N: amine) were evaluated to investigate their adsorption capacity and the effects of primary and secondary amines on Cr(VI) adsorption. We conducted a quantitative analysis to reveal the difference between primary and secondary amines in terms of Cr(VI) removal efficiency. A synergic effect was observed between the neighboring secondary amines in pssN-GO. From the Langmuir model prediction, we found that the composite with pssN-GO exhibited the highest maximum adsorption capacity (260.74 mg/g), followed by those with psN-GO (208.22 mg/g) and pN-GO (189.47 mg/g). Monolayer adsorption was more dominant when using pssN-GO, with the pseudo-second-order model best fitting the kinetic experiment results, whereas multilayer adsorption was dominant when using psN-GO and pN-GO.
