Preparation of a Novel Cellulose-Styrene Copolymer Adsorbent and Its Adsorption of Nitrobenzene from Aqueous Solutions.

ABSTRACT: A novel cellulose-styrene copolymer adsorbent (cellulose-St) was prepared using free radical polymerization. Successful polymerization was confirmed through Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Carbon 13 Solid Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (¹³C NMR) Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), etc. Cellulose-St possessed good hydrophobicity, and the best water contact angle of cellulose-St samples could reach 146°. It had the ability of adsorption for nitrobenzene (NB), and the adsorption process could be well described by the pseudo-second-order (R² > 0.99) and three-stage intraparticle diffusion (R² > 0.99) kinetic models. Furthermore, the dynamic adsorption experiments revealed that cellulose-St had the potential for continuous separation of

SUBMITTER: Yang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7922655 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature