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Wen Y, Xue C, Ji D, Zhang Y, Zhang M, Gong W, Li Z, Li Y. Green construction of self-floating polysaccharide-based hydrogels with catalytic activity for efficient organic pollutants reduction. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 271:132507. [PMID: 38768920 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.132507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2023] [Revised: 05/09/2024] [Accepted: 05/17/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024]
Abstract
This study employed an anionic heteropolysaccharide extracted from overgrown Enteromorpha and homopolysaccharide pullulan to fabricate a self-floating hydrogel by introducing bubble templates. Subsequently, green in-situ reduction and immobilization of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) in the hydrogel were successfully achieved without additional reducing agents. The heteropolysaccharide from Enteromorpha provides carboxyl and sulfate groups for Ag+ ions complexation, which is beneficial for the in-situ reduction of Ag NPs and inhibits their aggregation. The incorporation of bubble templates facilitates the creation of a hierarchical pore structure in the hydrogel, giving it self-floating properties for easy recycling, while the hierarchical network with rich anchor sites ensuring adequate traction for Ag NPs dispersion and stabilization. By adjusting polysaccharide content and using bubble templates, Ag NPs smaller than 10 nm can be obtained. The composite hydrogel exhibits tunable catalytic activity and excellent degradation towards Rhodamine B, Methyl Orange, and 4-Nitrophenol, with the normalized rate constant (knor) of 78.89, 59.08, and 30.42 min-1 g-1, respectively. Notably, the reduction efficiency remained above 98 % after 6 recycles with little leaching of Ag NPs, benefiting from its self-floating ability for easy recovery in practical applications.
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- Yutong Wen
- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, PR China.
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Khan MSJ, Mohd Sidek L, Kamal T, Khan SB, Basri H, Zawawi MH, Ahmed AN. Catalytic innovations: Improving wastewater treatment and hydrogen generation technologies. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024; 354:120228. [PMID: 38377746 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Revised: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
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The effective reduction of hazardous organic pollutants in wastewater is a pressing global concern, necessitating the development of advanced treatment technologies. Pollutants such as nitrophenols and dyes, which pose significant risks to both human and aquatic health, making their reduction particularly crucial. Despite the existence of various methods to eliminate these pollutants, they are not without limitations. The utilization of nanomaterials as catalysts for chemical reduction exhibits a promising alternative owing to their distinguished catalytic activity and substantial surface area. For catalytically reducing the pollutants NaBH4 has been utilized as a useful source for it because it reduces the pollutants quiet efficiently and it also releases hydrogen gas as well which can be used as a source of energy. This paper provides a comprehensive review of recent research on different types of nanomaterials that function as catalysts to reduce organic pollutants and also generating hydrogen from NaBH4 methanolysis while also evaluating the positive and negative aspects of nanocatalyst. Additionally, this paper examines the features effecting the process and the mechanism of catalysis. The comparison of different catalysts is based on size of catalyst, reaction time, rate of reaction, hydrogen generation rate, activation energy, and durability. The information obtained from this paper can be used to steer the development of new catalysts for reducing organic pollutants and generation hydrogen by NaBH4 methanolysis.
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- Institute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Institute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Institute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Institute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia; School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, 47500, Malaysia.
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Khan MSJ, Sidek LM, Kamal T, Asiri AM, Khan SB, Basri H, Zawawi MH, Ahmed AN. An efficient wastewater treatment through reduction of organic dyes using Ag nanoparticles supported on cellulose gum beads. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 257:128544. [PMID: 38061525 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.128544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2023] [Revised: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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This work reports silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) supported on biopolymer carboxymethyl cellulose beads (Ag-CMC) serves as an efficient catalyst in the reduction process of p-nitrophenol (p-NP) and methyl orange (MO). For Ag-CMC synthesis, first CMC beads were prepared by crosslinking the CMC solution in aluminium nitrate solution and then the CMC beads were introduced into AgNO3 solution to adsorb Ag ions. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) analysis suggests the uniform distribution of Ag nanoparticles on the CMC beads. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis revealed the metallic and fcc planes of AgNPs, respectively, in the Ag-CMC catalyst. The Ag-CMC catalyst exhibits remarkable reduction activity for the p-NP and MO dyes with the highest rate constant (kapp) of a chemical reaction is 0.519 and 0.697 min-1, respectively. Comparative reduction studies of Ag-CMC with CMC, Fe-CMC and Co-CMC disclosed that Ag-CMC containing AgNPs is an important factore in reducing the organic pollutants like p-NP and MO dyes. During the recyclability tests, the Ag-CMC also maintained high reduction activity, which suggests that CMC protects the AgNPs from leaching during dye reduction reactions.
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- Mohammad Sherjeel Javed Khan
- Institute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.
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- Institute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.
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- Institute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Institute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Institute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43000, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Zhu Q, Yin X, Tan Y, Wei D, Li Y, Pei X. Highly dispersed palladium nano-catalyst anchored on N-doped nanoporous carbon microspheres derived from chitosan for efficient and stable hydrogenation of quinoline. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 254:127949. [PMID: 37951427 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023]
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Under the background of green chemistry, the synthesis of N-heterocycles using efficient, stable and long-life catalysts has still faced great challenges. Herein, we used biomass resource chitosan to fabricate a nanoporous chitosan carbon microsphere (CCM), and successfully designed a stable and efficient Pd nano-catalyst (CCM/Pd). Various physicochemical characterizations provided convincible evidences that the palladium nanoparticles (NPs) were tightly and evenly dispersed on the CCM with a mean diameter of 2.28 nm based on the nanoporous structure and abundant functional N/O groups in CCM. Importantly, the graphitized constructure, the formed defects and larger surface area in CCM were able to promote the immobilization of Pd NPs and the electron transfer between Pd and CCM, thereby significantly improving the catalytic activity. The CCM/Pd catalyst was applied for hydrogenation of quinoline compounds, which showed excellent catalytic activity and durability, as well as good substrate applicability. The application of renewable biomass-based catalysts contributes to the progression of a green/sustainable society.
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- Qiudi Zhu
- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China; Guizhou Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nonmetallic Functional Materials, Lightweight Materials Engineering Research Center of the Education Department of Guizhou, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China.
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