Preparation of α-Fe2O3 hollow spheres, nanotubes, nanoplates and nanorings as high efficient Cr(VI) adsorbents
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23/08/2016Metadata
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Abstract
α-Fe2O3 nanoparticle with different morphologies, such as hollow spheres, nanotubes with limited {0001} plane exposed, nanoplates and nanorings with the {0001} plane predominantly exposed, have been synthesised by using NaH2PO4 and urea in a facile hydrothermal method. The mechanism of the morphology evolution from hollow sphere to nanoring has been investigated. It is proposed that the polymerisation of Fe3+/H2PO4− plays an important role in the formation of these morphologies. The adsorption of Cr (VI) from aqueous solution onto these α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles showed that the α-Fe2O3 with nanoring morphology has the highest removal efficiency, and the adsorption capacity reached to 16.9 mg/g. These results indicate that the adsorption mechanism of Cr (VI) onto hematite nanoparticles is a chemisorption process through doubly and triply coordinated hydroxyl groups on the outer surface of α-Fe2O3.
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Liu , Z , Yu , R , Dong , Y , Li , W & Zhou , W 2016 , ' Preparation of α-Fe 2 O 3 hollow spheres, nanotubes, nanoplates and nanorings as high efficient Cr(VI) adsorbents ' , RSC Advances , vol. 6 , no. 86 , pp. 82854-82861 . https://doi.org/10.1039/C6RA15245G
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RSC Advances
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Peer reviewed
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2046-2069Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2016 the Authors. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6RA15245G
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This work was financially supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No: 51302280, 51574286), Natural Science Foundation in Qinghai province (No: 2014-ZJ- 936Q). CAS "Light of West China" Program and Youth Innovation Promotion Association (2016377), CAS.Collections
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