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Revealing the role of graphene in enhancing the catalytic performance of phthalocyanine immobilized graphene/bacterial cellulose nanocomposite

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The catalytic activity of metal phthalocyanine (MPc) heterogeneous catalyst is determined by both the microstructure of the support and the electron transfer efficiency of MPc during the reaction process. Inspired by this, we developed a novel, highly-efficient heterogeneous MPc catalyst based on the construction of a “reaction-involved” support. Graphene incorporated bacterial cellulose (G/BC) nanohybrid was conveniently prepared by an in situ biosynthetic method for the subsequent immobilization of tetraamino cobalt(II) phthalocyanine (CoPc) catalyst. The resulting graphene incorporated, CoPc decorated bacterial cellulose nanocomposite (CoPc@G/BC) was applied for decoloration of dye solutions, the G/BC support was deeply involved in the reaction process. The unique three-dimensional web-like framework structure of G/BC and the high affinity of graphene markedly promote the accessibility of reactants to the active sites of CoPc@G/BC, and the equilibrium adsorption data were best fitted by Freundlich model. With H2O2 as an oxidant, dye molecules were catalytically oxidized by CoPc@G/BC, a ca. 70% enhancement of decoloration capacity was achieved with the incorporation of graphene. The catalytic oxidation was analyzed by electron paramagnetic resonance, highly reactive hydroxyl radical (·OH) was identified during the reaction, and the incorporated graphene can obviously promote the formation of ·OH. A potential mechanism of enhancement of catalytic activity of CoPc with G/BC support was originally proposed.

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Abbreviations

G/BC:

Graphene incorporated bacterial cellulose

CoPc:

Tetraamino cobalt(II) phthalocyanine

CoPc@G/BC:

Graphene incorporated, CoPc decorated bacterial cellulose

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51803044) and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. LQ15E030005).

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    Shiliang Chen, Wenjie Xie, Bifan Guo & Ting Pan

  2. National Engineering Lab of Textile Fiber Materials and Processing Technology (Zhejiang), Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, People’s Republic of China

    Shiliang Chen & Wenxing Chen

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Chen, S., Xie, W., Guo, B. et al. Revealing the role of graphene in enhancing the catalytic performance of phthalocyanine immobilized graphene/bacterial cellulose nanocomposite. Cellulose 26, 7863–7875 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-019-02670-z

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