The synergetic effect of a structure-engineered mesoporous SiO₂-ZnO composite for doxycycline adsorption.

ABSTRACT: The design and synthesis of an efficient adsorbent for antibiotics-based pollutants is challenging due to the unique physicochemical properties of antibiotics. The development of a mesoporous SiO₂-ZnO composite is a novel way to achieve excellent adsorption efficiency for doxycycline hydrochloride (DOX) in aqueous solutions due to the engineered highly open mesoporous structure and the ZnO-modified framework. Unlike the traditional method of obtaining mesoporous composites by post-synthesis techniques, the novel one-step method developed in this study is both effective and environment-friendly. The adsorption mechanism based on the novel synergetic effect between SiO₂ and ZnO was demonstrated through several experiments. SiO₂ led to the creation of a 3D ope

SUBMITTER: Huang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9075987 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature