Macrosurfactant Mediated, Aminopolycarboxy Acid Dictated and Open-cellular Adsorbent for Removing Metal Micropollutants from Water
Macrosurfactant Mediated, Aminopolycarboxy Acid Dictated and Open-cellular Adsorbent for Removing Metal Micropollutants from Water
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用于去除水中金属微污染物的大表面活性剂介导的氨基多羧酸指示的开孔吸附剂
DOI:
10.1039/c9qm00736a
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
7
通讯作者:
Decheng Wan
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作者:
Shiqi Weng;Ming Jin;Decheng Wan
Aminopolycarboxy acids (APAs) are well known for their ultrastong affinity for heavy metals. Their monolayer, full-coverage, robust and one-step decoration of the surface of a macroporous adsorbent has not yet been realized. In the current work, we derived a cost-effective strategy to produce a porous adsorbent with the aid of a dendritic macrosurfactant. Branched polyethylenimine (PEI) was partly alkylated with glycidyl cetylether (C16) to form a dendritic polyamine macrosurfactant (PEI@C16, Mn ∼ 104). This macrosurfactant well stabilized a water-in-oil high internal phase emulsion (HIPE), while a macrosurfactant counterpart based on linear PEI did so poorly. Heating the HIPE system triggered a simultaneous transformation of the residual amines of PEI@C16 into APAs and of the oil phase (consisting of styrene, divinylbenzene and radical initiator) into an open-cellular solid matrix. The resulting open-cellular monolith showed a rather large specific surface area and very high affinity for various heavy metal ions in water. The adsorption of Pb(II) was indicated to follow a chemical and monolayer adsorption mechanism. The adsorbent showed good recyclability, due to the robustly anchored APAs.