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One-pot hydrothermal synthesis of hierarchical porous manganese silicate microspheres as excellent Fenton-like catalysts for organic dyes degradation

Show Author's Information Yuyu Zheng,  Lihua Wang,  Liyun Zhang,  Heng Zhang,  Wancheng Zhu( )
Department of Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
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microspheres, degradation, organic dyes, hierarchical porous, manganese silicate, Fenton-like catalysts
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Zheng Y, Wang L, Zhang L, et al. One-pot hydrothermal synthesis of hierarchical porous manganese silicate microspheres as excellent Fenton-like catalysts for organic dyes degradation. Nano Research, 2022, 15(4): 2977-2986. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3929-3
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Towards bottlenecks demonstrated by typical Fenton-like catalysts in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for wastewater treatment, novel hierarchical porous Mn2+Mn63+SiO12 (Mn7SiO12, MSO-12) microspheres (specific surface area: 434.90 m2·g−1, pore volume: 0.78 cm3·g−1) were rationally designed and achieved via a simple one-pot hydrothermal method (150 °C and 12.0 h) without any pre-prepared templates or organic solvents, by using abundant MnCl2·4H2O and Na2SiO3·9H2O as the basic raw materials. The MSO-12 microspheres are confirmed as high-efficiency Fenton-like catalysts for degradation of organic dyes (methylene blue (MeB), Rhodamine B (RhB), and methyl blue (MB)) in the presence of H2O2, with impressively high specific consumption amount of MeB (R = 12.35 mg·g−1·min−1) and extremely low leaching of Mn (Mnloss% = 0.27%). Simultaneously, the synergetic effect of adsorption and degradation on the superior removal of MeB is uncovered. The excellent recycling performances, especially the satisfactory removal of MeB from the actual water bodies (e.g., tap water and river water), as well as potential applications for degradation of RhB and MB enable the MSO-12 microspheres as a novel promising competitive candidate Fenton-like catalyst.


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One-pot hydrothermal synthesis of hierarchical porous manganese silicate microspheres as excellent Fenton-like catalysts for organic dyes degradation

Show Author's information Yuyu Zheng, Lihua Wang, Liyun Zhang, Heng Zhang, Wancheng Zhu( )
Department of Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China

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Towards bottlenecks demonstrated by typical Fenton-like catalysts in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for wastewater treatment, novel hierarchical porous Mn2+Mn63+SiO12 (Mn7SiO12, MSO-12) microspheres (specific surface area: 434.90 m2·g−1, pore volume: 0.78 cm3·g−1) were rationally designed and achieved via a simple one-pot hydrothermal method (150 °C and 12.0 h) without any pre-prepared templates or organic solvents, by using abundant MnCl2·4H2O and Na2SiO3·9H2O as the basic raw materials. The MSO-12 microspheres are confirmed as high-efficiency Fenton-like catalysts for degradation of organic dyes (methylene blue (MeB), Rhodamine B (RhB), and methyl blue (MB)) in the presence of H2O2, with impressively high specific consumption amount of MeB (R = 12.35 mg·g−1·min−1) and extremely low leaching of Mn (Mnloss% = 0.27%). Simultaneously, the synergetic effect of adsorption and degradation on the superior removal of MeB is uncovered. The excellent recycling performances, especially the satisfactory removal of MeB from the actual water bodies (e.g., tap water and river water), as well as potential applications for degradation of RhB and MB enable the MSO-12 microspheres as a novel promising competitive candidate Fenton-like catalyst.

Keywords: microspheres, degradation, organic dyes, hierarchical porous, manganese silicate, Fenton-like catalysts

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Received: 10 August 2021
Revised: 05 October 2021
Accepted: 08 October 2021
Published: 24 December 2021
Issue date: April 2022

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This work was supported by the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering (No. SKL-ChE-21A02) and State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites (No. oic-202101009), China. The authors also wanna thank Dr. Junfeng Chen and Prof. Renjun Wang at School of Life Science (Qufu Normal University), for the analysis on the water quality of Liao River. The authors also thank the reviewers for their constructive suggestions on the great improvement of the work.

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