• 文献标题:   Modification of graphene aerogel with titania nanotubes for efficient methylene blue adsorption kinetics
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIU HL, GAO B, YUAN WJ, LI HY, LI J, LI YJ, ZHANG B, CHEN Z
  • 作者关键词:   titania nanotube, rgo aerogel, methylene blue, adsorption kinetic
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF SOLGEL SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0928-0707 EI 1573-4846
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  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1007/s10971-020-05449-y EA JAN 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Titania nanotubes (TNTs) with high length-diameter ratio are incorporated into reduced graphene oxide (rGO) aerogel to modify the porous structure of the obtained rGO/TNTs aerogel for efficient methylene blue (MB) adsorption. A hydrothermal method along with freeze drying is applied for the preparation of the rGO/TNTs composite aerogel. The uniformly dispersed TNTs in rGO matrix can effectively support the network structure and hinder the pi-pi bonding interaction between graphene sheets, thus resulting in a three-dimensional mesoporous network with high specific surface area. The rGO/TNTs aerogel shows favorable adsorption property toward MB and the maximum adsorption capacity can be 380.7 mg g(-1) with the adsorption efficiency of 92.2%. Besides, the adsorption kinetic analysis reveals that a dispersion process is found to be the rate-limiting step when the adsorbent dosage is low. With the increase of adsorbent content, chemical sorption such as the pi-pi interaction or the reaction of the polar functional groups between MB and rGO-TNTs-C aerogel becomes the rate-limiting step.