Synthesis and Regeneration of A MXene-Based Pollutant Adsorbent by Mechanochemical Methods
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Mechanochemical Etching
2.2. Adsorbent Synthesis and Performance
2.3. Mechanochemical Regeneration of Spent Adsorbent
3. Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Materials
4.2. Mechanochemical Synthesis of Ti3AlC2 MAX Phase
4.3. Mechanochemical Etching of Ti3AlC2 MAX Phase for Ti3C2Tx MXene Synthesis
4.4. Adsorbent Preparation
4.5. Adsorption of Methylene Blue onto Terephthalate-MXene
4.6. Characterization of the Materials
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Sample Availability: Samples of the compounds MC etched MXene, T-MX, I-MX andO-MX are available from the authors |
Adsorption Capacity (mg g−1) | Pseudo-First-Order * | Pseudo-Second-Order ** | ||||||
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209.5 | qe | K1 | R2 | χ2 | qe | v0 | R2 | χ2 |
242.89 | 0.837 | 0.982 | 95.35 | 205.60 | 246.77 | 0.993 | 38.58 |
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Vakili, M.; Cagnetta, G.; Huang, J.; Yu, G.; Yuan, J. Synthesis and Regeneration of A MXene-Based Pollutant Adsorbent by Mechanochemical Methods. Molecules 2019, 24, 2478. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24132478
Vakili M, Cagnetta G, Huang J, Yu G, Yuan J. Synthesis and Regeneration of A MXene-Based Pollutant Adsorbent by Mechanochemical Methods. Molecules. 2019; 24(13):2478. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24132478
Chicago/Turabian StyleVakili, Mohammadtaghi, Giovanni Cagnetta, Jun Huang, Gang Yu, and Jing Yuan. 2019. "Synthesis and Regeneration of A MXene-Based Pollutant Adsorbent by Mechanochemical Methods" Molecules 24, no. 13: 2478. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24132478