A novel graphene aerogel synthesized from cellulose with high performance for removing MB in water

doi:10.1016/j.jmst.2019.09.019

Abstract

Abstract:

A novel graphene aerogel has been synthesized from cellulose by an easy way through sol-gel reaction and carbonization. In this route, it can be found the products have a high yield about 48 % and form a specific porous networks assembled by graphene flake. The product sample like CGA-2, characteristic of a specific area about 1426.11 m²/g and total pore volume about 1.02 cm³/g, exhibits a remarkable performance for removing cationic dye like methylene blue (MB) in water. Of which the maximal MB adsorption capacity can be found about 610.85 mg/g in a neutral solution and 1.2 g/g in a basic solution. Under the condition of initial MB concentration of 100 mg/L and pH of 7.0, the adsorption equilibrium can be achieved on CGA-2 in 10 min, with MB removal ratio about 99 %. In the MB adsorption on CGA-2, the isotherm fits Langmuir model with correlation coefficient of 0.9905, and the kinetics follows pseudo-second-order model with correlation coefficient of 0.9999.

Key words: Graphene aerogel, Synthesis, Biomass precursor, Function, Adsorbent

Jin Li, Qin Wang, Lei Zheng, Hongbo Liu. A novel graphene aerogel synthesized from cellulose with high performance for removing MB in water[J]. J. Mater. Sci. Technol., 2020, 41: 68-75.

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Samples Samples	PF %	S_BET (m²·g^-1)	V_total (cm³·g^-1)	V_mic (cm³·g^-1)	^aV_mes (cm³·g^-1)
CCA	0	479.9	0.26	0.18	0.08
CGA-1	0.2	1222.4	0.82	0.36	0.46
CGA-2	0.5	1426.1	1.02	0.29	0.73
CGA-3	1	1150.1	0.80	0.37	0.43

Samples Samples	PF %	S_BET (m²·g^-1)	V_total (cm³·g^-1)	V_mic (cm³·g^-1)	^aV_mes (cm³·g^-1)
CCA	0	479.9	0.26	0.18	0.08
CGA-1	0.2	1222.4	0.82	0.36	0.46
CGA-2	0.5	1426.1	1.02	0.29	0.73
CGA-3	1	1150.1	0.80	0.37	0.43

Conc. (mg L^-1)	Temp (K)	Q_e,exp (mg g^-1)	Pseudo-first order			Pseudo-second order
Conc. (mg L^-1)	Temp (K)	Q_e,exp (mg g^-1)	k₁ (min^-1)	Q_e,cal (mg/g)	R²	k₂ (g.mg^-1.min^-1)	Q_e,cal (mg/g)	R²
100	298	199.68	1.2397	60.47	0.9096	0.1033	200.80	0.9999
200	298	398.80	0.5142	265.15	0.8507	0.0058	402.50	0.9998
300	298	446.02	0.3041	338.86	0.9734	0.0049	454.54	0.9996
300	313	464.77	0.5418	397.24	0.9358	0.0045	476.19	0.9997
	333	493.21	0.5784	401.67	0.8926	0.0047	502.51	0.9997

Conc. (mg L^-1)	Temp (K)	Q_e,exp (mg g^-1)	Pseudo-first order			Pseudo-second order
Conc. (mg L^-1)	Temp (K)	Q_e,exp (mg g^-1)	k₁ (min^-1)	Q_e,cal (mg/g)	R²	k₂ (g.mg^-1.min^-1)	Q_e,cal (mg/g)	R²
100	298	199.68	1.2397	60.47	0.9096	0.1033	200.80	0.9999
200	298	398.80	0.5142	265.15	0.8507	0.0058	402.50	0.9998
300	298	446.02	0.3041	338.86	0.9734	0.0049	454.54	0.9996
300	313	464.77	0.5418	397.24	0.9358	0.0045	476.19	0.9997
	333	493.21	0.5784	401.67	0.8926	0.0047	502.51	0.9997

Absorbent	Initial Conc. (mg/L)	pH	Contact time	Removal ratio(%)	Adsorption capacity (mg/g)	Refs.
AC	120	6	2 h	98-99.6	263.49	[47]
GO	120	6	2 h	94.8-98.8	240.65	[47]
Graphene	120	6	15 h	85.95-99.68	161.26	[48]
Agar/GO	200	6	26 h	99	578	[49]
GO/CS	250	4-8	24 h	>92	275.5	[50]
RCE/GO	20	6	30 min	99	68	[51]
GO/hydrogel	250	7	45 min	99	714.29	[52]
GCA-2	100	7	10 min	99	199.08	In this study
PNVCCMA	500	10	24 h	95	1441	[53]
P(AA-co-St)/complex	1000	10	30 min	>90	1843.46	[54]
MMT-PCN	1000	10	80 min	>90	686.94	[55]
PVDF/PDA/PPy	50	12	8 h	>90	370.4	[56]
GO/CS/β-CD	1000	12	3 h	>90	1134	[57]
CA-mGOCS	1000	12	35 min	>95	315.5	[58]
SCG-GAC	2000	11	24 h	99.6	986.8	[59]
GCA-2	1000	11	40 min	>90	1200	In this study