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Characteristic of adsorption cadmium of red soil amended with a ferromanganese oxide-biochar composite

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The increasing scarcity of arable land necessitates the development of effective decontamination techniques to re-gain contaminated areas and make them suitable for agricultural and other activities. Herein, we prepare a ferromanganese binary oxide-biochar composite (FMBC) and compare its potential for remediating Cd-contaminated red soil with that of biochar (BC), showing that (i) the obtained adsorption data are well described by the Langmuir model and (ii) Cd adsorption capacity increases with increasing adsorbent dosage. Specifically, the Cd adsorption capacity of FMBC-amended soil (6.72 mg g−1) is demonstrated to significantly exceed that of BC-amended red soil (4.85 mg g−1) and that of the control (2.28 mg g−1) and increases with increasing temperature and pH, while the results of instrumental analyses indicate that Cd sorption on the soil surface occurs via the formation of CdO and Cd(OH)2. Thus, FMBCs are concluded to play an important role in the adsorption of Cd, having the potential to prevent red soil acidification and improve soil quality, and are found to be promising remediation materials for mitigating the risks posed by Cd-contaminated red soil.

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The authors were financially supported by the National Science Foundation of China (41771525) and Central Public Research Institutes Basic Funds for Research and Development (Grant No. Y2017JC10).

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  1. Qiwen Zhou and Bohan Liao are contributed equally to the work and should be regarded as co-first authors.

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  1. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, 410004, China

    Qiwen Zhou & Bohan Liao

  2. Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Ministry of Agriculture of China, Tianjin, 300191, China

    Qiwen Zhou, Lina Lin, Zhengguo Song & Zulqarnain Haider Khan

  3. Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

    Ming Lei

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Zhou, Q., Liao, B., Lin, L. et al. Characteristic of adsorption cadmium of red soil amended with a ferromanganese oxide-biochar composite. Environ Sci Pollut Res 26, 5155–5163 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-3942-6

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