Multifunctional cobalt oxide nanocomposites for efficient removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions

El Mouden, A., El Messaoudi, N., El Guerraf, A., Bouich, A., Mehmeti, V., Lacherai, A., Jada, A. and Sher, F. ORCID: 0000-0003-2890-5912, 2023. Multifunctional cobalt oxide nanocomposites for efficient removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions. Chemosphere, 317: 137922. ISSN 0045-6535

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Abstract

In this study, co-precipitation synthesis of natural clay (NC) with Co3O4 nanoparticles (NPs) is carried out to elaborate the super NC@Co3O4 nanocomposites with admirable salinity confrontation, environmental stability and reusability, to eliminate heavy metal pollution such as toxic Pb(II) and Cd(II) ions. The advantages of using the NC@Co3O4 adsorbent are easy synthesis and biocompatibility. In addition, NC@Co3O4 can keep an excellent adsorption capacity by taking into account various environmental parameters such as the pH solution, NC@Co3O4 dose, adsorption process time and the initial heavy metals concentration. Furthermore, FTIR, XRD, TGA, SEM-EDS, TEM and AFM analyses were performed to confirm NC@Co3O4 nanocomposites synthesis and characterisation. The adsorption efficiencies of Pb(II) and Cd(II) ions by NC@Co3O4 nanocomposites were demonstrated to be up to 86.89% and 82.06% respectively. Regarding the adsorption from water onto the NC@Co3O4 nanocomposites, kinetics data were well fitted with PSO kinetic model, whereas a good agreement was found between the equilibrium adsorption and theoretical Langmuir isotherm model leading to maximum adsorption capacities of 55.24 and 52.91 mg/g, for Pb(II) and Cd(II) respectively. Monte Carlo (MC) simulations confirmed the spontaneous of this adsorption based on the negative values of Eads. The MC simulations were performed to highlight the interactions occurring between heavy metal ions and the surface of NC@Co3O4 nanocomposites, these were well correlated with the experimental results. Overall the study showed that NC@Co3O4 nanoadsorbents have strongly versatile applications and are well designed for pollutant removal from wastewater due to their unique adsorptive properties.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Chemosphere
Creators:	El Mouden, A., El Messaoudi, N., El Guerraf, A., Bouich, A., Mehmeti, V., Lacherai, A., Jada, A. and Sher, F.
Publisher:	Elsevier BV
Date:	March 2023
Volume:	317
ISSN:	0045-6535
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.137922 DOI 1645942 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	03 Feb 2023 11:55
Last Modified:	03 Feb 2023 11:55
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48156

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