Hydrochar Loaded with Nitrogen-Containing Functional Groups for Versatile Removal of Cationic and Anionic Dyes and Aqueous Heavy Metals
Yue Zhang, Yongshan Wan, Yulin Zheng, Yicheng Yang, Jinsheng Huang, Hao Chen, Jianjun Chen, Ahmed Mosa, Bin Gao · 2024
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Description
Yue Zhang and co-authors upgrade a plant-based charcoal so it can pull both dyes and heavy metals out of water, in a 2024 study. Factories release wastewater laced with both kinds of pollutant, and one sorbent that catches both is prized. The team cooked wheat straw into hydrochar, then treated it with a silicon compound that adds nitrogen groups to its surface.
The treated charcoal soaked up pollutants faster and held far more than the plain version, reaching balance in about four hours. Its uptake of lead, copper, and two dyes ran from about one to nearly ten times higher than the untreated char. Surface checks confirmed the new nitrogen groups and a larger area. The authors credit those groups for the gains and offer the recipe as a simple route to better sorbents.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yue Zhang, Yongshan Wan, Yulin Zheng, Yicheng Yang, Jinsheng Huang, Hao Chen, Jianjun Chen, Ahmed Mosa, Bin Gao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |