Citation: Mingfu Luo, Meng Wang, Huaipeng Pang, Runhao Zhang, Jing Huang, Kang Liang, Pu Chen, Peipei Sun, Biao Kong. Super-assembled highly compressible and flexible cellulose aerogels for methylene blue removal from water[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2021, 32(6): 2091-2096. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.03.024 shu

Super-assembled highly compressible and flexible cellulose aerogels for methylene blue removal from water

Mingfu Luo ^{a, 1} ,
Meng Wang ^{a, 1} ,
Huaipeng Pang ^a ,
Runhao Zhang ^a ,
Jing Huang ^b ,
Kang Liang ^c ,
Pu Chen ^d ,
Peipei Sun ^{a, *,} ,
Biao Kong ^{b, *,}

a.
National Supercomputer Research Center of Advanced Materials, Advanced Materials Institute, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Ji'nan 250014, China
b.
Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Lab of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials iChEM, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
c.
School of Chemical Engineering and Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia
d.
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada

sunpeipei@sdas.org

bkong@fudan.edu.cn

Received Date: 10 January 2021
Revised Date: 9 February 2021
Accepted Date: 9 March 2021
Available Online: 11 March 2021

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Physical adsorption is a common method to solve the contamination of methylene blue in dyeing wastewater. As a kind of adsorption material, cellulose aerogels with high porosity and surface areas have great potential application in methylene blue removal. However, the week hydrogen bonding between cellulose nanofibers making the cellulose aerogels with the poor mechanical properties and can be easily destroyed during adsorption. Hence, the preparation of cellulose aerogels with high mechanical strength is still a great challenge. Here, we report a robust super-assembly strategy to fabricate cellulose aerogels by combining cellulose nanofibers with PVA and M-K10. The resulting cellulose aerogels not only has a robust chemically cross-linked network, but also has strong H-bonds, which greatly enhance the mechanical properties. The resulting cellulose aerogels possess a low density of 19.32 mg/cm³. Furthermore, the cellulose aerogel shows 93% shape recovery under 60% strain (9.5 kPa under 60% strain) after 100 cycles, showing excellent mechanical property. The adsorption capacity of cellulose aerogel to methylene blue solution of 20 mg/L is 2.28 mg/g and the adsorption kinetics and adsorption isotherms have also been studied. Pseudo-second-order kinetic model and Freundlich isotherm model are more acceptable for indicating the adsorption process of methylene blue on the cellulose aerogel. Thus, this compressible and durable cellulose aerogel is a very prospective material for dyeing wastewater cleanup.
- Cellulose nanofiber,
- Aerogel,
- Compressible,
- Adsorption,
- Methylene blue
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