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One-Step Fabrication of Magnetic Polymer/Montmorillonite Adsorbent for Highly Efficient Phenol Adsorption

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Phenol contaminants are highly biotoxic and have become a global problem threatening the environment and human health. The objective of the present study was to develop a very efficient and easily recyclable adsorbent to remove phenol. A magnetic montmorillonite composite with organic co-intercalation was fabricated by a simple one-step co-precipitation method and exhibited excellent phenol removal. Two surfactants, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and erucic acid amide (EA), were successfully co-intercalated into the interlayer of Ca-montmorillonite, and Fe3O4 nanoparticles were simultaneously decorated to obtain Fe3O4-CTAB/EA-montmorillonite composite (Fe3O4-C/E-Mnt). The morphology and structure of Fe3O4-C/E-Mnt composite were explored by using different techniques such as X-ray diffraction, Fourier-Transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron microscopy and so on. The adsorption capacity of Fe3O4-C/E-Mnt for phenol was investigated under various conditions including temperature, pH, contact time, various phenol concentrations, and adsorbent dosage. The results showed that Fe3O4-C/E-Mnt retained a lamellar structure of Ca-Mnt with mesopores. Its interlayer space, surface area, and pore volume were increased. The Fe3O4-C/E-Mnt composite exhibited a good adsorption capacity (31.45 mg·g–1) for phenol with a removal efficiency of 85.46% at optimized conditions. Moreover, the adsorbent still maintained 78.32% of the adsorption capacity after five cycles. The adsorption test data of Fe3O4-C/E-Mnt followed the pseudo-second order kinetic model and the Langmuir model. The adsorption was a spontaneous, exothermic, entropy-decreasing process, and a possible adsorption mechanism of Fe3O4-C/E-Mnt was finally proposed.

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This work was supported financially by the National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (No. 2019YFC0408604-4), Shanxi Key Research and Development Program (Social Development, 201903D321053), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province (No. 201901D111110), Shanxi Scholarship Council of China (No. HGKY2019017), and Shanxi Provincial Foundation for Leaders of Disciplines in Science, China.

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    Pei Geng, Haidong Hao, Jingmao Guo, Yuxin Wang & Jianchao Ma

  2. Shanxi Key Laboratory of Biomedical Metal Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, People’s Republic of China

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Geng, P., Hao, H., Guo, J. et al. One-Step Fabrication of Magnetic Polymer/Montmorillonite Adsorbent for Highly Efficient Phenol Adsorption. Clays Clay Miner. 71, 377–396 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42860-023-00241-9

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