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Core-shell TiO₂@C ultralong nanotubes with enhanced adsorption of antibiotics

Wang, Z; Tang, H; Li, W; Li, J; Xu, R; Zhang, K; He, G; ... Brett, DJL; + view all (2019) Core-shell TiO₂@C ultralong nanotubes with enhanced adsorption of antibiotics. Journal of Materials Chemistry A , 7 (32) pp. 19081-19086. 10.1039/c9ta06735c. Green open access

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Abstract

As materials capable of adsorbing antibiotics continue to be developed, composite adsorbents have been shown to offer advantages over mono-material adsorbents. In this work, ultralong titanium dioxide@carbon nanotubes were prepared by a simple hydrothermal treatment, followed by carbonization. The composite material is able to adsorb three different categories of antibiotics, including tetracycline (TC), ofloxacin (OFO) and norfloxacin (NFO). The adsorption results show that the adsorption properties of composite materials have been greatly improved compared with single inorganic adsorbent materials, for which the adsorption capacities are 240 mg g⁻¹ (TC), 232 mg g⁻¹ (OFO), and 190 mg g⁻¹ (NFO), respectively. The adsorption mechanism is consistent with a Langmuir pseudo-first-order kinetic model.

Type: Article
Title: Core-shell TiO₂@C ultralong nanotubes with enhanced adsorption of antibiotics
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1039/c9ta06735c
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ta06735c
Language: English
Additional information: © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2019. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10080548
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