Issue 5, 2022

Polymer particles armored with cobalt oxide nanosheets for the catalytic degradation of bisphenol A

Abstract

2D particle surfactants are attractive for the formation of highly stable emulsions and use as templates to prepare composite structures with performance properties dependent on the composition. Cobalt oxide nanosheets (CONs) are a relatively understudied class of 2D particle surfactants that can be produced by the chemical exfoliation of lithium cobalt oxide, a transition metal oxide known for excellent gas-sensing, catalytic, and electrochemical properties. Here, we report a simple method to access CONs stabilized oil-in-water Pickering emulsions and use these as templates to prepare particles with a core of polymer and shell of CONs. Salt-flocculated CONs produce emulsions with droplets of hydrophobic monomer (e.g., styrene) in water that are stable for at least 24 hours, and suspension free radical polymerization is used to produce CON-armored particles. Characterization by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) confirmed the presence of CONs on the surface of the polymer core. We then demonstrated the CON-armored polymer particles can activate the oxidant peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for the degradation of bisphenol A (BPA). Freshly prepared and artificially aged CON-armored particles showed full degradation of BPA in less than an hour and no decrease in activity was observed after two uses. CON-armored particles combine high surface area of the nanosheets with the ease of recoverability of the particles.

Graphical abstract: Polymer particles armored with cobalt oxide nanosheets for the catalytic degradation of bisphenol A

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 9 2021
Accepted
06 1 2022
First published
06 1 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Mater. Adv., 2022,3, 2354-2363

Polymer particles armored with cobalt oxide nanosheets for the catalytic degradation of bisphenol A

M. Escamilla, K. Pachuta, K. Huang, M. Klingseisen, H. Cao, H. Zhang, A. Sehirlioglu and E. Pentzer, Mater. Adv., 2022, 3, 2354 DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00832C

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