Mesocarbon Microbead Carbon-Supported Magnesium Hydroxide Nanoparticles: Turning Spent Li-ion Battery Anode into a Highly Efficient Phosphate Adsorbent for Wastewater Treatment
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Phosphorus in water eutrophication has become a serious problem threatening the environment. However, the development of efficient adsorbents for phosphate removal from water is lagging. In this work, we recovered the waste material, graphitized carbon, from spent lithium ion batteries and modified it with nanostructured Mg(OH)2 on the surface to treat excess phosphate. This phosphate adsorbent shows one of the highest phosphate adsorption capacities to date, 588.4 mg/g (1 order of magnitude higher than previously reported carbon-based adsorbents), and exhibits decent stability. A heterogeneous multilayer adsorption mechanism was proposed on the basis of multiple adsorption results. This highly efficient adsorbent from spent Li-ion batteries displays great potential to be utilized in industry, and the mechanism study paved a way for further design of the adsorbent for phosphate adsorption.
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- Authors
- Zhang, Y., Guo, X., Wu, F., Yao, Y., Yuan, Y., Bi, X., Luo, X., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Zhang, C., & Amine, K.
- Affiliations
- Beijing Institute of Technology (CN)
- Michigan Technological University (US)
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Materials Science and Engineering Department, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, Michigan 49931, United States
- Argonne National Laboratory (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yao, Ying
- Venue
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2016-08-10
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 33
- Pages
- 21315-21325
- ISSN
- 1944-8244 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8252
- OpenAlex
- W2478207049
- Cited by
- 119
- References
- 74
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- journal article
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- en
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- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Commons - Michigan Tech (Michigan Technological University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2015CB251100)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51402018)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Phosphorus and nutrient management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Nephrology › Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments
- Keywords
- phosphate adsorption, wastewater treatment, graphitized carbon, magnesium hydroxide nanoparticles, eutrophication, adsorption mechanism, multilayer adsorption, adsorbent stability, waste recycling
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