Wenjun Qu,Huili Wang,Guodong Li,Zhaoping Song,Xiaona Liu,Fengshan Zhang,Wenxia Liu,Dehai Yu,Dandan Ji
The removal of heavy metal ions and medical antibiotics from wastewater is crucial for environmental protection and human health. However, the adsorption capacities and reusability of previously reported adsorbent materials have been insufficient for efficient and sustainable wastewater treatment . In this study, we present a composite material, UiO-66-AMP@PAN, synthesized from metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and polyacrylonitrile (PAN), which exhibits superior adsorption properties and reusability. The material demonstrates excellent adsorption capacities for heavy metal ions Pb(II) and Cr(VI) as well as the antibiotic tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH), among which the maximum adsorption capacities for Pb(II)(pH=7) and Cr(VI)(pH=5) and antibiotic tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH) (pH=9) were 455.8 mg/g, 442.08 mg/g and 405.92 mg/g, respectively. The adsorption efficiency of UiO-66-AMP@PAN as an adsorbent for adsorbing Pb(II)(pH=7) and Cr(VI)(pH=5) and the antibiotic tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH) (pH=9) remained above 90% even after ten consecutive cycles. The performance of UiO-66-AMP@PAN as an adsorbent has remained unchanged across multiple adsorption-desorption cycles, demonstrating its potential for long-term use in wastewater treatment applications. This innovative approach paves the way for the development of more efficient and environmentally friendly adsorption materials to address the challenges posed by heavy metal ions in wastewater and medical antibiotics.
A new zirconium-based adsorption material (UiO-66-AMP) was prepared by modifying UiO-66-NH 2 with 5-adenosine to effectively remove Pb(II) and Cr(VI) from wastewater. The SEM, EDS, XRS and FT-IR characterization confirmed the successful synthesis of UiO-66-AMP. We conducted a sets of experiments to test the adsorption effectiveness of UiO-66-AMP for Pb(II) and Cr(VI). The maximum adsorption capacity of UiO-66-AMP for Cr(VI) (pH=2) and Pb(II) (pH=4) are 196.60 and 189.69 mg/g, respectively. The adsorption process conforms to the pseudo-second-order and Langmuir models, which indicates that the adsorption is a single-layer chemical process. Gibbs free energy ( ∆G) indicates that the adsorption of Pb(II) is an exothermic reaction , while the adsorption of Cr(VI) is an endothermic reaction . At the same time, the adsorbent maintains excellent adsorption capacity at least after 4 cycles. The good adsorption performance of UiO-66-AMP towards the metal ions was attributed to the surface complexation and electrostatic interactions. Therefore, the new adsorbent has obvious application prospect to remove Pb(II) and Cr(VI) from wastewater.