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Carbon xerogel/Carbon Nanotubes Nanohybrid Doped with Ti for Removal of Methylene Blue Dye

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Physical chemistry

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A facile technology for decorating carbon xerogel (CX) with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to prepare carbonaceous nanohybrid (CX-CNTs) was simultaneously implemented during carbonization of resorcinol-formaldehyde xerogel at 1123K meanwhile camphor as carbon nanotubes source is heated at 523K. Then the prepared CX-CNTs hybrid is doped with tetrabutyl orthotitanate as a titanium (Ti) precursor giving CX-CNTs-Ti nanohybrid used as an efficient photocatalyst. The morphology and textural properties of the samples were investigated using field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), High resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and N2 adsorption-desorption isotherm at 77K. The adsorption and photocatalytic properties of these samples toward methylene blue dye (MB) were performed. FE-SEM and TEM approved the formation of CNTs over the surface of CX and the developed nanohybrids have mesoporous structures. The adsorption efficiency of CX-CNTs and CX-CNTs-Ti samples was found to be 70 and 86.8% along 180 min, respectively. Under visible irradiation, the removal efficiency of CX-CNTs and CX-CNTs-Ti is enhanced to 90 and 99% at 60 min, respectively. Thus, CX-CNTs-Ti nanohybrid exhibited superior adsorptivity and photoactivity for removing MB dye as a result of the presence of Ti particles over CX-CNTs matrix. Doping CX-CNTs with Ti particles led to a decrease in the specific surface area and to enhance in both the total pore volume and amount of wider pores. Therefore, the reported CX-CNTs-Ti nanohybrid exhibits as an effective adsorbent and photocatalyst toward the removal of the MB dye from their aqueous solutions.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2019.12870.1803

Keywords

Carbon xerogel, carbon nanotubes, Nanohybrid, Titanium, Adsorption, photocatalysis

Authors

First Name

Nady

Last Name

Fathy

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A

Affiliation

Physical Chemistry, Inorganic chemical industries division, National Research Centre,

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fathyna.77@hotmail.com

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0000-0002-6522-1053

First Name

Sahar

Last Name

Elkhouly

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

National Research Centre

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sm_elkhouly@yahoo.com

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First Name

Reham

Last Name

Aboelenin

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-

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National Research Centre

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reham.aboelenin@yahoo.com

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cairo

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Volume

62

Article Issue

12

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9517

Issue Date

2019-12-01

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2019-05-16

Publish Date

2019-12-01

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2,277

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2,288

Print ISSN

0449-2285

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2357-0245

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023