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A facile strategy to fabricate hollow spherical polyaniline and its application to dyes removal

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In this manuscript, a facile strategy was proposed to synthesize hollow spherical polyaniline by using the functionalized polystyrene sphere as the template, the resulting hollow spherical polyanilines were primarily uniform and few of them were stuck together. The obtained polyaniline was semicrystalline emeraldine with the SBET of 14.1 m2 g−1 and an average diameter of 300 nm as well as a shell thickness of 100 nm. This strategy probably provided a potential way to synthesis of the hollow spherical polyaniline. Furthermore, the synthesized hollow spherical polyaniline displayed high adsorption capacity of CR (46.91 mg g−1) and RhB (61.75 mg g−1). These values were higher than many other polyaniline-based adsorbents. The results suggested that the fabricated hollow spherical polyaniline had potential to be employed as adsorbent for CR and RhB removal.

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The work was supported by Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (ZR2017LEM013, ZR2021QE140), Shandong Provincial Key R&D Program (Grant No. 2019GGX102066), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31901589, 52103114), Colleges and Universities Twenty Foundational Projects of Jinan City (2021GXRC068) and the Program for Scientific Research Innovation Team in Colleges and Universities of Jinan (No. 2018GXRC006) for financial support.

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    Yue Wu, Hejia Chang, Zhizhou Yang & Sheng Gao

  2. Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals in Universities of Shandong, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, 250353, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

    Yue Wu, Jie Peng, Yu Liu & Bin Sun

  3. Institute of Vegetables, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, 250353, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

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Wu, Y., Chang, H., Peng, J. et al. A facile strategy to fabricate hollow spherical polyaniline and its application to dyes removal. Polym. Bull. 80, 3675–3688 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-022-04231-0

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