Molybdenum carbide is a noble-metal-like material, which shows great potential in many applications. The conventional Temperature-Programmed-Reduction (TPRe) method uses carbonaceous gases to carburize with molybdenum precursors, which has made a significant progress but still hard to scale up. In this work, molybdenum carbides were prepared by carburization of ammonium molybdenum molybdate on cellulose, g-C 3 N 4 , MWCNTs and sodium lignosulfonate without using any gaseous carbon source. Moreover, the formation of molybdenum carbide was subjected to in-depth investigation by using an in situ Simultaneous Thermal Analyzer – Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry coupling System. The technique revealed that the solid carbon carriers do have a great effect on the formation of molybdenum carbides. Furthermore, various characterization methods such as XRD, SEM, CO-TPD, FTIR and organic element analysis (OEA) were also applied to investigate the property of prepared molybdenum carbides. The results suggested that the prepared molybdenum carbides with CEL, MWCNTs and SLF as carbon supports could retain the skeleton and porous structure of a solid carbon carrier, and the prepared molybdenum carbides with g-C 3 N 4 as a carbon support could generate a new three-dimensional (3D) structure support, and the composition of carriers would also have an impact on the adsorption and physicochemical properties of molybdenum carbides.
A new Cs + adsorbent, Fe 3 O 4 -chitosan particles combined with ammonium molybdophosphate (Fe 3 O 4 –CTS–AMP composite) were synthesized using a facile method through coordination between CTS and AMP. The surface morphology and chemical composition characterization indicated that Fe 3 O 4 –CTS particles and AMP particles were bonded tightly and the composite behaved superparamagnetically. Cs + adsorption properties of Fe 3 O 4 –CTS–AMP composites were studied. The adsorption data fitted well with pseudo-second-order kinetic model and Langmuir–Freundlich adsorption isotherms model. The adsorption equilibrium can be reached fast at 5 min. The maximum adsorption capacity was calculated as 177.8 mg g −1 . The composite also showed high selectivity for Cs + in coexistence with high concentration of competing cations. The adsorption mechanism of Cs + for the composite may mainly be the exchange of Cs + with NH 4 + . Therefore, the newly developed adsorbent is a kind of potential efficient composite for Cs + removal from wastewater. Graphic abstract