Preparation of lignin surface-functionalized MXene nanosheets and its U(VI)adsorption properties
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摘要: 为了进一步改善MXene纳米材料对模拟放射性废水中U(VI)的吸附性能,利用天然资源酶水解木质素(EHL)作为生物表面活性剂对MXene进行表面功能化处理,采用SEM-EDS、XRD及FTIR对改性前后的材料进行了表征分析,并在吸附实验中探究了pH、温度、反应时间、干扰离子及不同初始U(VI)浓度等因素对除U(VI)效果的影响。结果表明,EHL阻止了MXene纳米片的聚集堆叠,并且引入了大量活性官能团,提高了EHL功能化MXene纳米片的吸附性能。在MXene与EHL的质量比为1∶5、投加量为0.1 g·L−1、pH为5、温度为303 K时,对U(VI)的最大吸附容量为231.95 mg·g−1。此外,吸附动力学和等温线分析表明,拟二级动力学模型和Freundlich等温线模型能很好地拟合此吸附过程,热力学分析表明其吸附过程是自发吸热的。经历5次循环再生后,对U(VI)的去除率仍在80%以上。表征分析结果表明,MX/EHL与U(VI)之间相互作用机制包括离子交换、静电吸引以及与含氧官能团之间的络合作用。基于此研究,MX/EHL作为一种环境友好型吸附材料,对去除废水中的U(VI)具有巨大潜力。Abstract: In order to further improve the adsorption performance of MXene nanomaterials on U(VI) in simulated radioactive wastewater, the surface functionalization of MXene was carried out by using natural resources of enzymatically hydrolyzed lignin (EHL) as a biosurfactant, and the materials before and after the modification were characterized and analyzed by using SEM-EDS, XRD, and FTIR, and the effects of pH, temperature, and the adsorption experiments were explored, reaction time, interfering ions and different initial U(VI) concentrations on the effect of U(VI) removal. The results show that EHL prevents the re-stacking of MXene nanosheets and introduces a large number of active functional groups, which improves the adsorption performance of EHL-functionalized MXene nanosheets. The maximum adsorption capacity for U(VI) is 231.95 mg·g−1 at the mass ratio of MXene to EHL of 1∶5, the dosage of 0.1 g·L−1, pH=5, and the temperature of 303 K. In addition, the adsorption kinetic and isotherm analyses show that the proposed second-order kinetic model and the Freundlich isotherm model fit this adsorption process well, and the thermodynamic analyses indicate that its adsorption process is spontaneous heat absorption. After five cycles of regeneration, the removal rate of U(VI) is still above 80%. Characterization results reveals that the interaction mechanisms between MX/EHL and U(VI) involve ion exchange, electrostatic attraction, and complexation with oxygen-containing functional groups. Based on this study, MX/EHL has great potential as an environmentally friendly adsorbent material for the removal of U(VI) from wastewater.
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Key words:
- MXene /
- lignin /
- nanomaterials /
- U(VI) /
- adsorption performance
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图 9 MX/EHL吸附U(VI)的Langmuir (a)、Freundlich (b)和Dubinin-Radushkevich (c)等温吸附模型拟合曲线;(d) lnK0与1/T的线性拟合
Figure 9. Fitting curve of Langmuir (a), Freundlich (b) and Dubinin-Radushkevich (c) isothermal adsorption model of U(VI) adsorption by MX/EHL; (d) Linear fit of lnK0 versus 1/T
Ce—U(VI) concentration at adsorption equilibrium; R—Universal gas constant; T—Temperature (K); K0—Equilibrium constant at different temperatures
表 1 MX和MX/EHL的孔隙结构参数
Table 1. Pore structure parameters of MX and MX/EHL
Material Surface area/
(m2·g−1)Pore volume/
(cm3·g−1)Pore diameter/
nmMX 3.8297 0.0100 10.4628 MX/EHL 8.7751 0.0455 20.7320 表 2 MX/EHL对U(VI)的吸附动力学参数
Table 2. The adsorption kinetic parameters of MX/EHL on U(VI)
Name of
samplePseudo-first-order Pseudo-second-order Intraparticle diffusion qe,exp/
(mg·g−1)k1/
min−1qe,cal/
(mg·g−1)R2 k2/
min−1qe,cal/
(mg·g−1)R2 kp1/
(mg·(g·
min0.5)−1)C1 $R_{1}^{2} $ kp2/
(mg·(g·
min0.5)−1)C2 $R_{2}^{2} $ kp3/
(mg·(g·
min0.5)−1)C3 $R_{3}^{2} $ MX 35.22 0.017 3.487 0.882 0.021 35.51 0.999 0.688 29.782 0.973 0.406 31.266 0.989 0.015 35.029 0.804 MX/EHL (1:4) 46.92 0.017 2.737 0.949 0.027 47.13 0.999 0.282 43.819 0.958 0.324 43.568 0.986 0.058 46.175 0.653 MX/EHL (1:5) 48.24 0.018 2.502 0.930 0.030 48.43 0.999 0.338 45.002 0.981 0.303 45.243 0.994 0.035 47.794 0.615 Notes: qe,exp—Actual adsorption capacity at adsorption equilibrium; qe,cal—Calculated adsorption capacity at adsorption equilibrium; k1 and k2—Adsorption rate constants of the pseudo-first and pseudo-second, respectively; R2—Correlation coefficient; kp1, kp2, kp3—Adsorption rate constants of intraparticle diffusion; C1, C2, C3—Adsorption constants of intraparticle diffusion. 表 3 Langmuir、Freundlich和Dubinin‒Radushkevich吸附等温线模型的相关参数
Table 3. Parameters associated with Langmuir, Freundlich and Dubinin-Radushkevich adsorption isotherm models
T/K Langmuir Freundlich Dubinin‒Radushkevich qmax/(mg·g−1) KL/(L∙mg−1) R2 KF 1/n R2 qDR E/(kJ·mol−1) R2 293 205.493 0.164 0.890 48.175 0.399 0.982 115.99 1.879 0.554 298 217.057 0.221 0.925 58.802 0.378 0.989 129.09 2.077 0.607 303 231.947 0.251 0.924 65.565 0.379 0.997 138.33 2.337 0.627 Notes: qmax—Maximum adsorption capacity; KL—Langmuir adsorption equilibrium constant; KF and n—Constants that are related to the adsorption capacity and the adsorption intensity, respectively; qDR—Theoretical isotherm saturation capacity; E—Average free energy of adsorption. 表 4 不同吸附剂对U(VI)的吸附去除效果对比
Table 4. Comparison of adsorption and removal effects of different adsorbents on U(VI)
Adsorbent pH T/K qmax/(mg·g−1) Ref. C-TC 5 308 165.43 [20] MXene/SA 4 298 126.82 [34] C-TC-CS 6 313 141.96 [36] PANI/Ti3C2Tx 5 298 102.80 [37] PAO/Ti3C2Tx 4 298 98.04 [38] Ti3C2-AO-PA 8.3 298 81.10 [41] MX/EHL 5 303 231.95 This work Notes: C-TC—Chloroacetic acid modified-Ti3C2Tx; MXene/SA—MXene composite sodium alginate gel microsphere; C-TC-CS—Chloroacetic acid-modified MXene-CS gel microspheres; PANI/Ti3C2Tx—Polyaniline modified MXene composites; PAO/Ti3C2Tx—Polyamidoxime functionalized MXene composite; Ti3C2-AO-PA—Polyamide enhanced amidoxime-functionalized Ti3C2 nanosheet. 表 5 MX/EHL吸附U(VI)的热力学参数
Table 5. Thermodynamic parameters of MX/EHL adsorption of U(VI)
T/K lnK0 ΔG0/(kJ·mol−1) ΔH0/(kJ·mol−1) ΔS0/(J·(mol·K)−1) 293 4.69 −11.43 38.89 175.26 298 5.00 −12.39 303 5.23 −13.18 Notes: ΔH0—Standard enthalpy change; ΔG0—Standard free energy change; ΔS0—Standard entropy change. -
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