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Heavy metal ions and dyes in wastewater pose a severe hazard to ecological system and human health. This study used sulfamic acid (SA) to modify cellulose for adsorbent material preparation. The results from the structural characterization indicated that cellulose was successfully modified by introducing sulfonic acid groups to obtain sulfamic acid modified cellulose (SAMC). Subsequently, SAMC was prepared into spheres via being dissolved in ionic liquid and obtaining in antisolvent. The adsorption performance of SAMC aerogel spheres was investigated using methylene blue (MB) and lead ions (Pb2+). The maximum absorption capacity of SAMC aerogel spheres to MB and Pb2+ achieved 14.53 mg/g and 112.15 mg/g, respectively. The adsorption process conformed to the pseudo-second-order (PSO) model and Langmuir model. The adsorption mainly involved chemical action via coordination interaction between -SO32− and MB/Pb2+. Thermodynamic experiments confirmed that the adsorption process in the experiment was a spontaneous endothermic process. Therefore, this study provided a simple adsorbent production method for wastewater treatment.
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This work was supported by the Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (32271800), the Basic Research Integration Projects of Science, Education, and Industry of Qilu University of Technology (2022PY039), Jinan Innovation Team (2021GXRC023), the QUTJBZ Program (2022JBZ01-05).
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Shi, X., Ji, H., Ji, X. et al. Cellulose modification using sulfamic acid for adsorption of methylene blue and lead ions. Cellulose (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-024-05880-2
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