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Ultra-long Magnetic Nanochains for Highly Efficient Arsenic Removal from Water.

ABSTRACT: The contamination of drinking water with naturally occurring arsenic is a global health threat. Filters that are packed with adsorbent media with a high affinity for arsenic have been used to de-contaminate water - generally iron or aluminium oxides are favored materials. Recently, nanoparticles have been introduced as adsorbent media due to their superior efficiency compared to their bulk counter-parts. An efficient nanoadsorbent should ideally possess high surface area, be easy to synthesize, and most importantly offer a high arsenic removal capacity. Achieving all the key features in a single step synthesis is an engineering challenge. We have successfully engineered such a material in the form of nanochains synthesized via a one step flame synthesis. The ultra-long γ-Fe₂O₃ nanochains possess high surface area (151.12 m² g^-1), large saturation magnetization (77.1 emu g^-1) that aids in their gas phase self-assembly into long chains in an external magnetic field, along with an extraordinary arsenic removal capacity (162 mg.g^-1). A filter made with this material exhibited a relatively low-pressure drop and very little break-through of the iron oxide across the filter.

SUBMITTER: Das GK

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4170064 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ultra-long Magnetic Nanochains for Highly Efficient Arsenic Removal from Water.

Das Gautom Kumar GK Bonifacio Cecile S CS De Rojas Julius J Liu Kai K van Benthem Klaus K Kennedy Ian M IM

Journal of materials chemistry. A 20140801 32

The contamination of drinking water with naturally occurring arsenic is a global health threat. Filters that are packed with adsorbent media with a high affinity for arsenic have been used to de-contaminate water - generally iron or aluminium oxides are favored materials. Recently, nanoparticles have been introduced as adsorbent media due to their superior efficiency compared to their bulk counter-parts. An efficient nanoadsorbent should ideally possess high surface area, be easy to synthesize, ...[more]

PMID: 25254112

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