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In situ growth gold nanoparticles in three-dimensional sugarcane membrane for flow catalytical and antibacterial
Qingtong Zhang1, Mingfu Li1, Bin Luo1
1College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China; Guangxi Key Lab of Clean Pulp & Papermaking and Pollution Control, Nanning, 530004, China.
Abstract:
In this work, we decorated gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) in the porous, three-dimensional sugarcane membrane for the flow catalytical and antibacterial application. Due to the uniformly distributed Au NPs in sugarcane channels and the porous structure of sugarcane, the interaction between contaminant and catalysis was enhanced as water flowing through the Au NPs/sugarcane membrane. The Au NPs/sugarcane membrane exhibited superior catalytical efficiency for removing methylene blue (MB) with a turn over frequency of 0.27 molMB·molAu-1·min-1 and the water treatment rate reached up to 1.15×105 L/m2 h with >98.3 % MB removal efficiency. The Au NPs/sugarcane membrane also exhibited superior bacterial removal efficiency as E. coli suspension flowing through it, due to the superimposition effects of physical barrier in sugarcane and the antibacterial property of Au NPs. The tremendous catalytical and antibacterial performance of Au NPs/sugarcane membrane provides a promising potential for the rational design of flow catalytical membrane reactor to purify the microbial contaminated water.
