Issue 12, 2021

Degradation of tetracycline over carbon nanosheet: high efficiency, mechanism and biotoxicity assessment

Abstract

A new dual-decontamination strategy has been employed to synthesize graphitic carbon nanosheets (GCNs) from Reactive Red 2, a common chemical pollutant in textile wastewater, for efficient tetracycline (TC) degradation via nonradical oxidation processes. Detailed physical characterization indicates that the GCN possesses a layered and flat structure, high microporosity, and microscopic configuration of graphene-like nanosheets with abundant surface O-, N- and S-containing functional groups (including graphitic N and carbonyl groups). From the kinetic model, quenching experiments and mechanism studies, only 1O2 is detected in the GCN/PMS system, without SO4˙, HO˙ or O2˙. 1O2 contributed to only 17.8% of overall TC degradation. Surface-confined electron transfer appears to be the major oxidation pathway (82.2%) for TC degradation. Furthermore, full-scale biological assays verify that the biotoxicity of the TC degradation products is significantly reduced in comparison with that of the precursor. This work provides a new insight toward the conversion from a chemical pollutant into a metal-free carbon catalyst for wastewater treatment.

Graphical abstract: Degradation of tetracycline over carbon nanosheet: high efficiency, mechanism and biotoxicity assessment

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 sep 2021
Accepted
25 okt 2021
First published
27 okt 2021

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2021,8, 3762-3773

Degradation of tetracycline over carbon nanosheet: high efficiency, mechanism and biotoxicity assessment

X. Liu, W. Hou, X. Meng, X. Bi, H. Zhao, Z. Wang and D. Astruc, Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2021, 8, 3762 DOI: 10.1039/D1EN00841B

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