PMID- 35973504 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220929 LR - 20220929 IS - 1879-1298 (Electronic) IS - 0045-6535 (Linking) VI - 307 IP - Pt 3 DP - 2022 Nov TI - MgO coated magnetic Fe(3)O(4)@SiO(2) nanoparticles with fast and efficient phosphorus removal performance and excellent pH stability. PG - 135972 LID - S0045-6535(22)02465-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135972 [doi] AB - A regenerable MgO-coated magnetic Fe(3)O(4)@SiO(2) (FSM) composite effectively avoided the agglomeration of nano-MgO, which was resoundingly used for efficient and rapid phosphorus removal from aqueous solutions. Based on an initial screening of synthesized FSM with different Mg/citric acid molar ratios in terms of phosphorus adsorption capacity, an FSM composite with a Mg-citric acid molar ratio of 1:1 (FSM-1:1) was determined as the optimal choice. Scanning electron microscope (SEM), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) showed that the prepared Fe(3)O(4) was triumphantly loaded and the nano-MgO nanoparticles were evenly distributed on the surface of magnetic mesoporous silica. N(2) adsorption-desorption experiments manifested that FSM-1:1 had a large specific surface area of 124.3 m(2)/g and the pore size distribution calculated based on the BJH model was centered at 9.36 nm. Furthermore, FSM-1:1 not only exhibited fast adsorption kinetics (60 min) but also had a high maximum theoretical adsorption capacity of 223.6 mg P/g, which was superior to all the other Mg-based adsorbents. Remarkably, due to the coating of MgO, FSM-1:1 exhibited ultra-high stability in the pH range of 3-11, a wider range than many other Mg-modified sorbents. Our adsorbents also showed excellent selectivity for phosphate anions even in the presence of various coexisting anions (e. g. NO(3)(-), Cl(-) and SO(4)(2-)) with varying ionic strengths (0.01 and 0.1 M), good recyclability, the removal rate of phosphate still reached 89.0% after three cycles. Electrostatic attraction, Lewis acid-base interaction and the ligand exchange between Mg-OH and phosphate anions were responsible for the phosphate adsorption mechanisms. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Li, Shuangli AU - Li S AD - Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education, China), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, PR China. FAU - Zhang, Yu AU - Zhang Y AD - Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education, China), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, PR China. FAU - Qiao, Sen AU - Qiao S AD - Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education, China), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, PR China. Electronic address: qscyj@mail.dlut.edu.cn. FAU - Zhou, Jiti AU - Zhou J AD - Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education, China), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, PR China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220813 PL - England TA - Chemosphere JT - Chemosphere JID - 0320657 RN - 0 (Lewis Acids) RN - 0 (Ligands) RN - 0 (Phosphates) RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) RN - 27YLU75U4W (Phosphorus) RN - 2968PHW8QP (Citric Acid) RN - 7631-86-9 (Silicon Dioxide) SB - IM MH - Adsorption MH - Citric Acid MH - Hydrogen-Ion Concentration MH - Kinetics MH - Lewis Acids MH - Ligands MH - Magnetic Phenomena MH - *Nanoparticles MH - Phosphates MH - Phosphorus MH - Silicon Dioxide MH - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - Adsorption OT - Magnesium oxide OT - Magnetic nanoparticles OT - Phosphorous removal OT - pH stability COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2022/08/17 06:00 MHDA- 2022/09/30 06:00 CRDT- 2022/08/16 19:23 PHST- 2022/05/22 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/08/02 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/08/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/08/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/09/30 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/08/16 19:23 [entrez] AID - S0045-6535(22)02465-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135972 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Chemosphere. 2022 Nov;307(Pt 3):135972. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135972. Epub 2022 Aug 13.