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Fabrication of environmentally-friendly composited sponges for efficient removal of fluoroquinolones antibiotics from water

Authors :
Mayyada M. H. El-Sayed
Boqiang Gao
Zhonghua Xi
Qianqian Chang
Tamer Shoeib
Hu Yang
Source :
Journal of hazardous materials. 426
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

In this study, two environmentally-friendly macroscopically formal (PVF) composited sponges (PL and PLS) functionalized with lignin and lignosulfonate, respectively, were fabricated by a one-step mechanical foaming method. PLS possessed the largest specific surface area of approximately 22.396 m2/g, a three-dimensional skeleton structure with a skeletal density of 3.236 g/cm3, and 0.338 mmol/g of acidic oxygen-containing groups. Thus, it showed the highest adsorption capacity of 0.16–0.24 mmol/g (51.17–76.75 mg/g) in removing seven antibiotics, of the popular fluoroquinolones (FQs) family from water. The contributions of hydrogen bonding, electrostatic attraction (EA) and π-π electron donor-acceptor interaction to the adsorption of FQs onto the PL and PLS sponges were analyzed systematically by investigating the pH dependence of the adsorption capacity, and the changes in adsorption of two sub structural analogs of FQs as molecular probes, and by performing theoretical calculations. The EA between the acidic oxygen-containing groups on the sponges and the amino groups of FQs played a dominant role in adsorption in near neutral conditions, leading to a superior adsorption performance for PLS. Overall, the composited sponges have the advantages of simple production, environmental-friendliness, convenient recycle, and low cost, which renders them potentially viable in treating real wastewater containing FQs.

Details

ISSN :
18733336
Volume :
426
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of hazardous materials
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....824c235b3020141bee2afd0d57c5ab0a