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Tannic acid coated single-wall carbon nanotube membranes for the recovery of Au from trace-level solutions

Show Author's Information Chunmei Wang1,2,3,  Peng-Xiang Hou1,3( ),  Yiming Zhao1,3,  Chao Shi1,  Jiangang Zhang1,3,  An-Ping Wu1,  Chang Liu1,3( ),  Hui-Ming Cheng1,4
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
Analysis and Test Center, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang 110016, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Technology for Carbon Neutrality, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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membrane, carbon nanotube, redox reaction, tannic acid, Au recovery
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The efficient recovery of gold from industrial sewage is important for saving precious metals and remains a big challenge. We report the extraction of gold ions from a trace-level aqueous solution using a tannic acid (TA) coated single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) film. The TA has many redox ligands that efficiently adsorb Au(III) from the solution and reduce them to Au particles. The interwoven SWCNTs not only act as a framework to improve the mechanical stability of the hybrid membrane, but also provide abundant paths for H2O transport, and facilitate the full exposure of the TA. As a result, the hybrid membrane has an excellent ability to capture gold ions from solution with a high flux of 157 L/(m2·h·bar), and an ultra-high adsorption capacity of 2095 mg/g from solutions with an extremely low gold concentration of 20 ppm. The adsorbed gold ions are reduced to Au particles, which can be easily collected by oxidation. The recovered Au nanoparticles on the TA–SWCNT hybrid film had a remarkable surface-enhanced Raman scattering effect that enabled the sensitive detection of rhodamine 6G.


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Tannic acid coated single-wall carbon nanotube membranes for the recovery of Au from trace-level solutions

Show Author's information Chunmei Wang1,2,3, Peng-Xiang Hou1,3( ), Yiming Zhao1,3, Chao Shi1, Jiangang Zhang1,3, An-Ping Wu1, Chang Liu1,3( ), Hui-Ming Cheng1,4
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
Analysis and Test Center, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang 110016, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Technology for Carbon Neutrality, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China

Abstract

The efficient recovery of gold from industrial sewage is important for saving precious metals and remains a big challenge. We report the extraction of gold ions from a trace-level aqueous solution using a tannic acid (TA) coated single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) film. The TA has many redox ligands that efficiently adsorb Au(III) from the solution and reduce them to Au particles. The interwoven SWCNTs not only act as a framework to improve the mechanical stability of the hybrid membrane, but also provide abundant paths for H2O transport, and facilitate the full exposure of the TA. As a result, the hybrid membrane has an excellent ability to capture gold ions from solution with a high flux of 157 L/(m2·h·bar), and an ultra-high adsorption capacity of 2095 mg/g from solutions with an extremely low gold concentration of 20 ppm. The adsorbed gold ions are reduced to Au particles, which can be easily collected by oxidation. The recovered Au nanoparticles on the TA–SWCNT hybrid film had a remarkable surface-enhanced Raman scattering effect that enabled the sensitive detection of rhodamine 6G.

Keywords: membrane, carbon nanotube, redox reaction, tannic acid, Au recovery

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Received: 15 January 2023
Revised: 22 April 2023
Accepted: 03 May 2023
Published: 27 June 2023
Issue date: August 2023

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52188101, 52130209, 52072375, and 51872293), the Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program (No. XLYC2002037), and a Basic Research Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (No. ZR2019ZD49).

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