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Design of Copper Oxide Nanosheets-Loaded Zeolite with Efficient Inhibition of Marine Bacteria

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Copper oxide-loaded zeolite 4A nanocomposites (CuO-zeolite NCs) were successfully prepared by modifying zeolite 4A with CuSO4 aqueous solution as the copper source. Zeolite 4A showed an important role in hosting copper oxide, and CuO-zeolite NCs exhibited a controlled release of copper ions. XRD patterns confirmed the appearance of new diffraction peaks of copper oxide at 35.83° and 38.83°. CuO nanosheets formed on the surface of zeolite 4A were about 30–40nm thick over a width of 200–300nm. CuO-zeolite NCs were primarily composed of Cu, Si, Al and O, as measured by XPS. Cu 2p3/2 and Cu 2p1/2 peaks were fitted into two main peaks centered at 934.7eV and 954.6eV, which were attributed to Cu (II). Zeolite 4A and CuO-zeolite NC displayed reversible Langmuir isotherm (type-I) characteristics and showed maximum adsorption quantities of almost 200 cm3 g−1 at a relative pressure of 1.0 by CO2 adsorption-desorption experiments. The antibacterial efficiencies of the CuO-zeolite NC were 99.4%, 96.7%, and 96.8% against Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis (P. tetraodonis), Micrococcus luteus (M. luteus), and Shewanella putrefaciens (S. putrefaciens), respectively. These values showed that nano CuO-loaded zeolite 4A acted as a strong bactericide against marine bacteria. CuO-zeolite NCs can be further applied to marine antifouling coating.

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The authors thank the support of the National Key Research and the Development Project (No. 2019YFC0312 103), and the Open Fund of Shandong Key Laboratory of Corrosion Science (No. KLCS201905).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China

    Jin Hou & Yongcheng Ye

  2. Shandong Key Laboratory of Corrosion Science, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266100, China

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Hou, J., Ye, Y. Design of Copper Oxide Nanosheets-Loaded Zeolite with Efficient Inhibition of Marine Bacteria. J. Ocean Univ. China 21, 1237–1243 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11802-022-5240-7

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