scholarly journals Fabrication of reduced graphene oxide decorated with CuS nanoparticles and its activity toward the adsorption of Methylene Blue

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johra Tuz ◽  
Woo-Gwang Jung

Reduced graphene oxide (RGO) can act as an adsorbent because of its high surface area. The adsorptive characteristics of a RGO composite combined with CuS were studied quantitatively. The removal efficiency of Methylene Blue was found to be about 85%, which is higher than that of bare CuS (?73%). Furthermore, the kinetics of adsorption of Methylene Blue was inspected to determine the rate of the process. The removal process was faster with the RGO?CuS system than with bare CuS. Both high and low temperatures were not favorable for this adsorption process. In highly ionic media of high or low pH, the adsorption was greater than in media of neutral pH. Thermodynamic parameters were calculated in this study and they suggest that this is physisorption and exothermic in nature.

2020 ◽  
Vol 309 ◽  
pp. 113171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Harbi Calimli ◽  
Mehmet Salih Nas ◽  
Hakan Burhan ◽  
Sibel Demiroglu Mustafov ◽  
Özkan Demirbas ◽  
...  

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Arias Arias ◽  
Marco Guevara ◽  
Talia Tene ◽  
Paola Angamarca ◽  
Raul Molina ◽  
...  

Recently, green-prepared oxidized graphenes have attracted huge interest in water purification and wastewater treatment. Herein, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) was prepared by a scalable and eco-friendly method, and its potential use for the removal of methylene blue (MB) from water systems, was explored. The present work includes the green protocol to produce rGO and respective spectroscopical and morphological characterizations, as well as several kinetics, isotherms, and thermodynamic analyses to successfully demonstrate the adsorption of MB. The pseudo-second-order model was appropriated to describe the adsorption kinetics of MB onto rGO, suggesting an equilibrium time of 30 min. Otherwise, the Langmuir model was more suitable to describe the adsorption isotherms, indicating a maximum adsorption capacity of 121.95 mg g−1 at 298 K. In addition, kinetics and thermodynamic analyses demonstrated that the adsorption of MB onto rGO can be treated as a mixed physisorption–chemisorption process described by H-bonding, electrostatic, and π − π interactions. These results show the potential of green-prepared rGO to remove cationic dyes from wastewater systems.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Qiuqiu Wang ◽  
Juanhua Zhang ◽  
Yanbo Xu ◽  
Yingyi Wang ◽  
Liang Wu ◽  
...  

One-step electrochemically reduced graphene oxide with high surface area and improved electron transfer kinetics shows great performances in the determination of furfural in dairy milk.


ChemSusChem ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1875-1884 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hee-Chang Youn ◽  
Seong-Min Bak ◽  
Myeong-Seong Kim ◽  
Cherno Jaye ◽  
Daniel A. Fischer ◽  
...  

ChemSusChem ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1822-1822
Author(s):  
Hee-Chang Youn ◽  
Seong-Min Bak ◽  
Myeong-Seong Kim ◽  
Cherno Jaye ◽  
Daniel A. Fischer ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabela Kondratowicz ◽  
Kamila Żelechowska ◽  
Dominika Majdecka ◽  
Renata Bilewicz

AbstractWe have carried out the preparation of reduced graphene oxide aerogels using eco-friendly method that is based on the Hummers method of graphite oxidation without the use of NaNO3 that produces toxic gases. To obtain a porous 3D structure of reduced graphene oxide, we performed the hydrothermal reduction at elevated temperature. We also prepared the rGO aerogel/CNT composite using multiwalled carbon nanotubes as linkers. The rGO aerogels are promising materials as they possess good electrical conductivity (up to 100 S/m) and high surface area and porous structure (~500 m2/g). The main goal was to obtain the material for electrodes in enzymatic biofuel cells. Thus, the proper modification was performed using free radical functionalization. It was shown that in order to synthesize rGO aerogels modified with anthracene, the proper order of reactions needs to be provided. The morphology of anthracene modified electrodes was analyzed using scanning electron microscopy, which confirmed their porous structure with non-uniform pore size distribution that ranged between few nanometers to microns. Data obtained by Raman spectroscopy confirmed the successful oxidation and reduction of analyzed materials. UV-Vis spectra revealed the presence of anthracene moieties in examined materials. We also recorded preliminary cyclic voltammograms that confirm an electric conductivity of the obtained structures.


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