Enhancing Methylene Blue Adsorption Performance of Ti3C2Tx@Sodium Alginate Foam Through Pore Structure Regulation
Yi Hu, Hongwei Wang, Xianliang Ren, Fang Wu, Gaobin Liu, Shufang Zhang, Haijun Luo, Liang Fang · 2024
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Description
A foam that drinks up dye from wastewater works only as well as its pores allow, and Yi Hu and seven co-authors tuned those pores in a 2024 study. Their foam marries a flaky material called MXene with sodium alginate, a seaweed extract, cast into small spheres by freeze-drying.
Changing how much MXene went into the mix produced four foams: some with honeycomb pores, some with flat layered pores, all between 100 and 300 micrometers wide. The honeycomb foams soaked up far more methylene blue dye than the layered ones. The best of them held 969 milligrams of dye per gram of foam, near the top of known adsorbents. Checks on speed, heat, and balance of the uptake pointed to a physical, heat-absorbing, single-layer process. The authors pitch pore shape as a cheap lever for cleaning dye-laden water.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yi Hu, Hongwei Wang, Xianliang Ren, Fang Wu, Gaobin Liu, Shufang Zhang, Haijun Luo, Liang Fang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |