Issue 3, 2017

One-pot synthesis of porous carbon foam derived from corn straw: atrazine adsorption equilibrium and kinetics

Abstract

Hierarchically porous carbon foams (PCFs) demonstrate great potential for removal of atrazine from aqueous solutions owing to their large surface area, huge pore volume and interconnected hierarchically structured pores. The strategies for building PCFs from corn straw using a simple one-pot approach are challenging. PCFs with three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical pores consisting of micro-, meso- and macropores are fabricated via mixing biomass with NaHCO3 followed by heat treatment. The as-prepared PCFs possess large specific surface areas (up to 1892 m2 gāˆ’1 with a high pore volume of 0.845 cm3 gāˆ’1) and share rich functional groups on their surface contributing to the enhancement of the PCFs' adsorption capacity. Langmuir and Freundlich models are adopted to interpret the adsorption behavior of atrazine and the modified Freundlich and intraparticle diffusion (IPD) models are employed to describe the dynamics of adsorption. A developed adsorbent with a green preparation method and low cost compared to commercial carbon exhibits better efficiency for atrazine removal than adsorbents reported in the literature.

Graphical abstract: One-pot synthesis of porous carbon foam derived from corn straw: atrazine adsorption equilibrium and kinetics

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Nov 2016
Accepted
10 Jan 2017
First published
16 Jan 2017

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2017,4, 625-635

One-pot synthesis of porous carbon foam derived from corn straw: atrazine adsorption equilibrium and kinetics

F. Yang, L. Sun, W. Zhang and Y. Zhang, Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2017, 4, 625 DOI: 10.1039/C6EN00574H

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