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Materials Letters: Qinglei Sun, Mei Tang, Yekuan Duan, Yun Li, Yang Peng
Materials Letters: Qinglei Sun, Mei Tang, Yekuan Duan, Yun Li, Yang Peng
Materials Letters: Qinglei Sun, Mei Tang, Yekuan Duan, Yun Li, Yang Peng
Materials Letters
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Article history: A hierarchically porous and magnetic Ni-TiO2/ACFs (activated carbon fibers) composite catalyst was pre-
Received 12 June 2020 pared by loading Ni-TiO2 nanoparticles on ACFs to realize microwave-induced catalytic degradation for
Received in revised form 14 July 2020 methyl violet (MV). The effect of synthesis conditions and compositions on Ni-TiO2/ACFs were investi-
Accepted 22 July 2020
gated and characterized by XRD, BET, SEM and FT-IR. Results indicated that Ni-TiO2/ACFs exhibited higher
Available online 26 July 2020
catalytic activity than ACFs and TiO2/ACFs. After calcining at 900 °C for 2 h, Ni-TiO2/ACFs with respective
weight ratio of 2:8 achieved 96.13% degradation ratio of MV after 3 min microwave.
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Porous materials
Carbon materials
Ni-TiO2/ACFs
Microwave-induced
Degradation
Catalytic
1. Introduction To effectively utilize the energy from the ‘‘hot spots”, Zhang
et al. [7] loaded TiO2 on ACFs and applied the composite in sodium
Methyl violet (MV) as a group of triarylmethane compound dodecyl benzene sulfonate degradation under MW, which exhib-
used in textile printing and dyeing industries generally contains ited excellent degradation effect. TiO2 played a significant role in
aromatic rings, –NH2, etc., which are difficult to be decomposed absorbing more energy from the ‘‘hot spots’’ on ACFs surface, thus
through traditional biological and chemical treatments, thus producing more electron-hole pairs to attack organic pollutants in
threatening natural environment severely [1]. Researchers wastewater.
employed adsorption, photocatalysis, etc. methods to degrade Generally, the use of Ni as a catalyst has been reported as the
MV, however, the degradation is incomplete and the products effective method to improve the efficiency of various reactions
may cause second pollution [2,3]. One of the most promising tech- [8], and the charge separation efficiency of TiO2 can be further
nologies is to utilize microwave-induced catalytic method [4]. improved by doping magnetic Ni nanoparticles [9]. In current
Water treatment through microwave (MW) irradiation method is study, we synthesize a hierarchical and porous Ni-TiO2/ACFs com-
currently getting wider scientific recognition owing to its low acti- posite with excellent catalytic activity for MV under MW.
vation energy, and high reaction rate. Furthermore, it can further
reduce the activation system, and make the chemicals bonds of dif- 2. Experimental
ferent molecules weakened [5]. Zhang et al. [6] discovered the
combination of MW and activated carbon fibers (ACFs) showed a The details of sample preparation, abbreviations of samples,
satisfying degradation effect in organic pollutants. The mechanism characterization and MW degradation were specified in Supple-
was based on absorption and degradation of organic pollutants on mentary Information.
short lived ‘‘hot spots” that were formed on ACFs and disappeared
immediately under MW.
3. Results and discussion
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Fig. 1. (a) XRD patterns of NT20/A80-800, NT20/A80-900 and NT20/A80-1000, (b) N2 adsorption–desorption isotherms, and (c) corresponding PSD of NT0/A100-900, NT10/
A90-900 and NT20/A80-900, respectively, SEM images of (d-e) NT0/A100-900 and (f-h) NT20/A80-900.
Fig. 2. Different factors influencing MV degradation under MW: (a) different Ni-TiO2 loading weights, (b) different calcined temperatures, (c) different NT20/A80-900 dosages
and (d) Kinetic fitting of MW-induced degradation of MV using 10 mg NT20/A80-900.
Fig. 3. (a) The degradation ratio of MV degraded by NT20/A80-900 under MW before and after reuse (seven cycles), (b) FT-IR spectra of MV degraded by NT20/A80-900 after
different MW time, (c-d) SEM images of NT20/A80-900 after the cyclic degradation of MV under MW.
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