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Photochemically Induced Electron Transfer: Simultaneously Decolorizing Dye and Reducing Cr(VI)

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Hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) and dyes are of particular environmental concern and need to be removed from water urgently due to their high toxicity. Herein, we explored the possibility of electron transferring from dye Orange II (OII) to Cr(VI) under UV and simulated solar light irradiation, expecting to simultaneously decolorize dyes and reduce Cr(VI). Experimental results show that light irradiation can partially decolorize OII but has no ability to reduce Cr(VI) in solution only with OII or Cr(VI). However, both dyes and Cr(VI) can effectively and simultaneously be decolorized and reduced in the solution containing both OII and Cr(VI) under light irradiation, and a low pH level and high OII/Cr(VI) concentration ratio significantly favor the co-removal. Additionally, insoluble organo–Cr(III) complexes identified by FTIR and XPS characterization were generated during the reaction. These complexes are beneficial to the removal of chromium and total organic carbon from water. The possible degradation pathway of OII is further proposed based on the detection of degraded products by GC-MS analysis. The results of this work offer an approach for simultaneously removing multiple contaminants.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41572031), the National Program for support of Top-notch Young Professionals, and the Guangdong Provincial Youth Top-notch Talent Support Program (2014TQ01Z249). This is contribution No. IS-2463 from GIGCAS.

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  1. CAS Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mineral Physics and Materials, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Minwang Laipan, Haoyang Fu, Runliang Zhu, Jianxi Zhu & Hongping He

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Minwang Laipan, Haoyang Fu & Hongping He

  3. School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China

    Gangqiang Zhu

  4. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA

    Linda Rivera

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Laipan, M., Fu, H., Zhu, R. et al. Photochemically Induced Electron Transfer: Simultaneously Decolorizing Dye and Reducing Cr(VI). Water Air Soil Pollut 228, 446 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-017-3642-8

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