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Study on Removal of Methylene Blue by Condensation Self-Assembled Graphene Oxide/Thiourea Composite Adsorbent

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  • Jiaqi Bu

    (College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China)

  • Lu Yuan

    (College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering of Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China)

  • Hongru Jiang

    (College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China)

  • Chongqing Wang

    (School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China)

Abstract

A novel adsorbent (GO-TOA) was prepared by condensation and self-assembly of graphene oxide (GO) and thiourea, and it was characterized systematically. The results revealed that thiourea has anchored on graphene oxide (GO) successfully. The results showed that GO-TOA had a higher adsorption capacity (641.724 mg/g) and adsorption rate (92.32%) than GO (196.8 mg/g and 65.6%), indicating that the introduction of thiourea greatly improved the adsorption capacity of GO. Adsorption kinetics, adsorption thermodynamics isotherm, and adsorption thermodynamics were used to study the adsorption mechanism. The results show that GO-TOA still has an adsorption rate of 90.44% compared with 0 cycles (92.32), indicating that GO-TOA has good activation and regeneration capacity. In addition, ethanol and dilute hydrochloric acid were used for the desorption of MB, and the effect of desorption was found very well. Through reusability experiments, we also found that GO-TOA has excellent application potential. We believe that GO-TOA will be a potential adsorbent for MB.

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  • Jiaqi Bu & Lu Yuan & Hongru Jiang & Chongqing Wang, 2022. "Study on Removal of Methylene Blue by Condensation Self-Assembled Graphene Oxide/Thiourea Composite Adsorbent," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-15, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:22:p:15290-:d:976025
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