An adsorption–catalysis pathway toward sustainable application of mesoporous carbon nanospheres for efficient environmental remediation

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

ACS ES&T Water

Publisher

ACS

School

School of Engineering

RAS ID

32482

Funders

This work was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project (Grants DP150104365 and DP160104835). The authors acknowledge technical support from the X-ray Surface Analysis Facility (WA, Australia) under LIEF Grant LE120100026 and the Curtin University Electron Microscope Facility, which has been partially funded by the University, State, and Commonwealth Governments.

Grant Number

ARC Numbers : DP150104365, DP160104835

Comments

Azhar, M. R., Arafat, Y., Zhong, Y., Khiadani, M., Tade, M. O., Wang, S., & Shao, Z. (2021). An adsorption–catalysis pathway toward sustainable application of mesoporous carbon nanospheres for efficient environmental remediation. ACS ES&T Water,1,145-156.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsestwater.0c00026

Abstract

Large-surface area carbon materials have attracted a great deal of attention recently due to their promising applications in adsorption, energy storage, and catalysis. In this study, a green and sustainable wastewater treatment strategy, involving pre-adsorption of mesoporous carbon nanospheres (MCNS) with water contaminants and subsequent advanced oxidation of pre-adsorbed molecules and an additional water contaminant, is studied for the treatment of wastewater and regeneration of MCNS simultaneously. Here, MCNS were facilely synthesized, which demonstrated high efficiency in adsorptive removal of neutral, cationic, and anionic organic water contaminants. MCNS with pre-adsorbed contaminant molecules were found to be highly active catalysts for the peroxymonosulfate (PMS)-activated removal of phenol in wastewater. Meanwhile, the pre-adsorbed organic contaminants in MCNS were also removed by PMS, leading to a re-cleaned surface for subsequent adsorptive removal of the water contaminant. Various parameters in adsorption and catalytic degradation were studied to elucidate the performance of MCNS as well as the adsorption and degradation mechanism. The recyclability of MCNS for multiple adsorption–catalysis runs makes the process green, sustainable, and cost-effective without introducing any secondary contaminants.

DOI

10.1021/acsestwater.0c00026

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