PMID- 36320857 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20221104 IS - 2046-2069 (Electronic) IS - 2046-2069 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 41 DP - 2022 Sep 16 TI - Removal of p-nitrophenol from simulated sewage using MgCo-3D hydrotalcite nanospheres: capability and mechanism. PG - 27044-27054 LID - 10.1039/d2ra01883g [doi] AB - 4-Nitrophenol (4-NP) is an organic pollutant found in the wastewater discharged from coking and petrochemical industries, and it is highly toxic, persistent, and bioaccumulative. 4-NP is difficult to degrade and causes serious damage to human health and the ecological environment. In this study, MgCo-3D hydrotalcite nanospheres were synthesized via the hot solvent method using ZIF-67 as a template for 4-NP removal from wastewater. The composition and structure of MgCo-3D hydrotalcite nanospheres were characterized via X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscope (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), and BET analyses. The maximum adsorption capacity was 131.59 mg g(-1) under the optimized conditions (pH = 7, t = 298 K, C (0) = 50 mg L(-1), dose = 0.4 g L(-1)). The adsorption obeyed the Langmuir, Redlich-Peterson and Sips models and pseudo-second-order kinetics, and the adsorption activation energy was 29.4 kJ mol(-1), indicating a monolayer physical adsorption phenomenon. The adsorption of 4-NP on the MgCo-3D hydrotalcite nanospheres mainly involved hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions. The nanospheres were regenerated using the hot-air purging method. After five adsorption-desorption cycles, the adsorption capacity reached 107.6 mg g(-1), indicating the good regeneration performance of the MgCo-3D hydrotalcite nanospheres. CI - This journal is (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry. FAU - Gao, Fei AU - Gao F AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3822-3598 AD - East China University of Science and Technology School of Chemical Engineering China jyyang@ecust.edu.cn. FAU - Xu, Xinru AU - Xu X AD - East China University of Science and Technology School of Chemical Engineering China jyyang@ecust.edu.cn. FAU - Yang, Jingyi AU - Yang J AD - East China University of Science and Technology School of Chemical Engineering China jyyang@ecust.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220922 PL - England TA - RSC Adv JT - RSC advances JID - 101581657 PMC - PMC9494026 COIS- There are no conflicts to declare. EDAT- 2022/11/03 06:00 MHDA- 2022/11/03 06:01 PMCR- 2022/09/22 CRDT- 2022/11/02 02:18 PHST- 2022/03/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/09/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/11/02 02:18 [entrez] PHST- 2022/11/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/11/03 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/09/22 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - d2ra01883g [pii] AID - 10.1039/d2ra01883g [doi] PST - epublish SO - RSC Adv. 2022 Sep 22;12(41):27044-27054. doi: 10.1039/d2ra01883g. eCollection 2022 Sep 16.