Superactive NiFe-LDH/graphene nanocomposites as competent catalysts for water splitting reactions
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
Authors: Nayak, Susanginee; Parida, Kulamani
Abstract
NiFe-LDH has been recognized as the most efficient and cost-effective material for wider applications in electrocatalytic, photoelectrocatalytic, and photocatalytic water splitting, with supercapacitors and adsorbents, owing to their inimitable physicochemical properties. It is well known that standalone NiFe-LDH executes poor electrical conductivity, sluggish mass transfer, and low activity, which put a question mark on their catalytic efficiency and other applications that require superior electrical conductivity and exciton pair separation efficiency. Most importantly, this constraint creates a hindrance to their superior performance in the area of electrocatalytic and photochemical water splitting. To avoid these shortcomings, the coupled structure of NiFe-LDH/graphene has the potential to reflect properties of both NiFe-LDHs and conductive graphene, which completely overcome the shortcomings of counterparts, ensuring better performance and stability. This review aims to summarize the structural impact of NiFe-LDHs, with the interfacial role of graphene/graphene oxide (GO) by establishing a relationship between their structure and activity. Moreover, the emphasis has been laid on the latest development in NiFe-LDH/GO-based materials, along with attention to synthetic methods targeting the creation of a hierarchal porous nature in the materials with different growth approaches to NiFe-LDH on graphene for applications in electrocatalytic, photoelectrocatalytic, and photocatalytic water splitting activities. The latest research and development in this field using NiFe-LDH/graphene with a sensible intermixing of active sites and conductive framework is explored.
The tetracyclines removal by MgAl layered double oxide in the presence of phosphate or nitrate: Behaviors and mechanism exploration
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Authors: Zhang, Ping; He, Tao; Chen, Han; Li, Peng; Xiang, Mingxue; Ding, Nengshui; Deng, Shuguang
Abstract
Pollution of tetracyclines (TCs) in swine wastewater has been a critical concern worldwide. Notably, multiple anions (e.g. PO43-, NO3-) coexist in the actual environments, which could significantly influence the TCs removal. In the current study, MgAl layered double oxide (MgAl-LDO) was adopted for investigating the TC removal performance with/without PO43- or NO3-. In all systems, the adsorption performance exhibited two different approaches between low and high TC concentrations. In the single system, pseudo-second-order and the Freundlich model fitted well to the equilibrium adsorption data when TC concentration was below 125 mg.L-1, while the pseudo-first-order and the linear model could describe the removal process at high TC concentration (>125 mg.L-1). The maximum adsorption capacity was 83.56 mg.g(-1). In the co-existing system, the adsorption capacity was slightly enhanced when TC concentration below 150 mg.L-1 however was inhibited at high concentration (>150 mg.L-1). Combined with the characterization analyses, the interaction mechanism at low concentration was primarily surface adsorption on reconstructed LDH from LDO in the TC-alone system. It is worth mention that both PO43- and NO3- facilitated the formation of LDH via rehydration of LDO which enhanced surface adsorption in the co-existing system. At high TC concentration, the formation of tetracycline-metal complexes played a dominant role in TC removal in the single system, whereas diminished complexation in the binary system led to the decreased TC removal. This study provides a theoretical and practical guidance for MgAl-LDO on the efficient remediation of actual tetracyclines wastewater. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc.