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Highly efficient carbonaceous nanofiber/layered double hydroxide nanocomposites for removal of U(VI) from aqueous solutions

  • Shuqi Yu , Xiangxue Wang , Shunyan Ning EMAIL logo , Zhongshan Chen and Xiangke Wang EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: November 23, 2018
Radiochimica Acta
From the journal Radiochimica Acta Volume 107 Issue 4

Abstract

The three-dimensional (3D) carbonaceous nanofiber and Ni-Al layered double hydroxide (CNF/LDH) nanocomposite was successfully prepared by a facile one-step hydrothermal methodology. Characterization of scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), XRD, and Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) provided a demonstration that the modified CNF/LDH nanocomposite possessed abundant functional groups, for instance, metal-oxygen surface bonding sites (Ni–O as well as Al–O) and free-metal surface bonding sites (C–O, C–O–C, as well as O–C=O). The elimination of representative radionuclide (i.e. U(VI)) on the CNF/LDH nanocomposite from aqueous solutions was explored as a key function of pH, ionic strength, contact time, reaction temperature as well as radionuclide preliminary concentrations with the use of the batch methodology. As revealed by the findings, the sorption of radionuclides on CNF/LDH nanocomposite adhered to the pseudo-second-order kinetic model as well as Langmuir model. The maximum elimination capacity of U(VI) amounted to be 0.7 mmol/g. The independent of ionic strength shed light on the fact that inner-sphere surface complexation mainly overpowered radionuclide uptake by the CNF/LDH nanocomposite, which was further verified through the combination of FTIR and XPS spectral analyses. The abovementioned analyses shed light on the fact that the CNF/LDH nanocomposite can be regarded as a latent material to preconcentration radionuclides for environmental remediation.

Keywords: Carbonaceous nanofiber; sorption; U(VI); layered double hydroxide

Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Award Identifier / Grant number: 21876048

Award Identifier / Grant number: 21607042

Award Identifier / Grant number: 11705032

Funding statement: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21876048, 21607042, 11705032, Funder Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011002), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2018MS114, 2018ZD11) and Guangxi Natural Science Foundation of China (2017GXNSFBA198175).

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The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/ract-2018-3061).

Received: 2018-09-19
Accepted: 2018-10-31
Published Online: 2018-11-23
Published in Print: 2019-03-26

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ract-2018-3061
Keywords for this article
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