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Chinese Journal of Materials Research  2015, Vol. 29 Issue (9): 663-670    DOI: 10.11901/1005.3093.2014.564
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Adsorption Performance of Methylene Blue onto Nanoparticles of Carbon-Encapsulated Magnetic Nickel
Ranran LI1,Hao HUANG1,Xinglong DONG1,**(),Yonghui WANG1,Hongtao YU2,Xie QUAN2,Youngguan JUNG3
1. Key Laboratory of Materials Modification by Laser, Ion, and Electron Beam, Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
2. Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Ministry of Education, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, South Korea
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Ranran LI,Hao HUANG,Xinglong DONG,Yonghui WANG,Hongtao YU,Xie QUAN,Youngguan JUNG. Adsorption Performance of Methylene Blue onto Nanoparticles of Carbon-Encapsulated Magnetic Nickel. Chinese Journal of Materials Research, 2015, 29(9): 663-670.

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Nanoparticles of carbon encapsulated nickel (Ni@C NPs) were in-situ synthesized by direct current arc-discharge plasma method through evaporating pure Ni in methane atmosphere. Transmission electron microscopy observation revealed that the nanoparticles (Ni@C NPs) exhibited an encapsulation structure with Ni metal as core and carbon 3-5 nm in thickness as shell. The BET surface area of the prepared Ni@C NPs is 38.82 m2g-1 according to N2 adsorption-desorption isotherm. Surface modification with hydrogen peroxide was carried to graft oxygen-containing groups on carbon, which can improve the wettability and hydrophilicity of the Ni@C NPs. Then the effect of contact time, adsorption time and pH values on the adsorption of methylene blue was systematically investigated with the surface modified Ni@C NPs as adsorbent. The adsorption kinetics was analyzed with pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order models and the adsorption isotherm of methylene blue onto Ni@C NPs was fitted by Langmuir and Freundlich models. In addition, the result of recycling experiments for 5 cycles showed that a recovery rate 69.4% for the adsorbent could be reached. Furthermore, results of trial separation of Ni@C NPs by applied magnetic fields show that the magnetic field assisted separation technology is efficient means for the recycling and reuse of this adsorbent.
Key words:  composite      carbon coated nickel nanoparticles      adsorption      methylene blue      magnetic separation     
Received:  08 October 2014     
Fund: *Supported by National Basic Research Program of China No.2011CB936002 and National Natural Science Foundation of China Nos. 51271044, 51331006 & 51171033.
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Fig.1  HRTEM image (a) and XRD spectra (b) of Ni@C NPs
Fig.2  FT-IR spectra of Ni@CNPs before and after modification by H2O2
Fig.3  Zeta potential of Ni@C NPs as a function of solution pH before and after modification
Fig.4  Dispersityof Ni@C NPs before (A) and after (B) modification, (a) 2 min, (b) 5 min, (c) 10 min
Fig.5  Effect of initial concentration of MB on removal rate (a) and adsorption capability (b) at 30°C and pH=6.1
Fig.6  Effect of solution pH on adsorption at 30℃ and MB=20 mgL-1
Fig.7  Pseudo-first-order (a) and Pseudo-second-order (b) model at 30℃ and pH=6.1
Pseudo-first-order Pseudo-second-order
CMB /mgL-1 qe,exp /mgg-1 k1 /min-1 qe,cal /mgg-1 R 1 2 k2 /gmg-1min-1 qe,cal /mgg-1 R 2 2
10 9.7 0.020 3.8 0.623 0.017 9.9 0.998
20 16.4 0.026 7.1 0.780 0.011 16.8 0.999
30 19.7 0.030 18.6 0.953 0.002 22.1 0.994
Table 1  Coefficients of Pseudo-first and Pseudo-second-order adsorption kinetic models at 30℃ and pH=6.1
Fig.8  Langmuir (a) and Freundlich isotherm (b) of MB adsorption onto Ni@C NPs at 30℃ and pH=6.1
Langmuir Freundlich
KL/Lmg-1 qm/mgg-1 r L 2 RL KF/Lg-1 r F 2 n
1.74 20.6 0.992 0.019 12.48 0.999 4.99
Table 2  Adsorption isotherm parameters of MB adsorption onto Ni@C NPs at 30℃ and pH=6.1
Adsorbent Adsorption capacity/mgg-1 Ref.
Anaerobic granular sludge 45.01 [25]
Polyaniline nanotubes base/silica composite 10.31 [26]
Magnetic multi-wall carbon nanotube 11.89 [27]
Reduced graphene oxide-based hydrogels 7.85 [28]
Ni@C nanoparticles 20.6 This study
Table 3  Comparison of the capacity for some adsorbents with adsorption of methylene blue
Fig.9  Adsorption and desorption cycle performance of Ni@C NPs
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