1. Construction of bitter gourd-like Ag-loaded aramid nanofibers aerogel with efficient synergistic adsorption/photocatalytic degradation of crystalline violet and antibacterial activity.
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Zhu, Keya, Shi, Fei, Liu, Jingxiao, Ma, Chuangchuang, Liu, Junyan, Wasim, Muhammad, Li, Tianci, Qiu, Pengfei, Ding, Xin, and Zhang, Yuhao
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NANOFIBERS ,PHOTODEGRADATION ,AEROGELS ,PHOTOCATALYSIS ,ANTIBACTERIAL agents ,SURFACE plasmon resonance ,ADSORPTION (Chemistry) - Abstract
Dyes are environmentally detrimental and prevalent pollutants in water. It is crucial to develop materials for water treatment with both adsorption/photocatalytic and antibacterial activity. In this work, bitter gourd-like Ag-loaded aramid nanofibers (ANFs@Ag) aerogel fibers were successfully prepared by a novel wet spinning process, in which the coupling of Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) cluster on the fiber surface could be enhanced by using ANFs as a support carrier. The as-prepared ANFs@Ag aerogel fibers exhibit uniform porous structure with the specific surface area and pore volume being 235–298 m
2 g−1 and 0.54–0.63 m3 g−1 , respectively, and the photocatalytic activity of ANFs@Ag aerogel fibers could be achieved owing to the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect and interband electronic transition of the bitter gourd-like AgNPs layer. The ANFs@Ag aerogel fibers showed high removal efficiency of crystalline violet with up to 98.66% under xenon lamp irradiation due to the synergetic effect of adsorption and photocatalysis. Moreover, bacterial disk diffusion experiments revealed that the ANFs@Ag aerogel fibers have significant antibacterial performance against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. In addition, the ANFs@Ag aerogel fibers exhibit superior thermal stability due to the loading of AgNPs. This work provides a new strategy for developing highly efficient porous ANFs–aerogel-based fiber composites, and the obtained bitter gourd-like ANFs@Ag composite aerogel fibers will have promising applications in the field of water purification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2023
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