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Performance and mechanistic studies of rapid atenolol degradation through peroxymonosulfate activation by V, Co, and bamboo carbon catalyst

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Developing the Co-based catalysts with high reactivity for the sulfate radical (SO4−·)–based advanced oxidation processes (SR-AOPs) has been attracting numerous attentions. To improve the peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation process, a novel Co-based catalyst simultaneously modified by bamboo carbon (BC) and vanadium (V@CoO-BC) was fabricated through a simple solvothermal method. The atenolol (ATL) degradation experiments in V@CoO-BC/PMS system showed that the obtained V@CoO-BC exhibited much higher performance on PMS activation than pure CoO, and the V@CoO-BC/PMS system could fully degrade ATL within 5 min via the destruction of both radicals (SO4−· and O2−··) and non-radicals (1O2). The quenching experiments and electrochemical tests revealed that the enhancing mechanism of bamboo carbon and V modification involved four aspects: (i) promoting the PMS and Co ion adsorption on the surface of V@CoO-BC; (ii) enhancing the electron transfer efficiency between V@CoO-BC and PMS; (iii) activating PMS with V3+ species; (iv) accelerating the circulation of Co2+ and Co3+, leading to the enhanced yield of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Furthermore, the V@CoO-BC/PMS system also exhibited satisfactory stability under broad pH (3–9) and good efficiency in the presence of co-existing components (HCO3−, NO3−, Cl−, and HA) in water. This study provides new insights to designing high-performance, environment-friendly bimetal catalysts and some basis for the remediation of antibiotic contaminants with SR-AOPs.

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This work was financed by the Fujian Natural Science Foundation (2022J01563 and 2023J05103), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22208057 and 22278082), and Fu-Xia-Quan Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone Collaborative Innovation Platform Project (No. 2022-P-024).

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    Yihui Hu, Kai Yang, Xin Weng, Yanting Jiang, Jian Huang, Yuancai Lv, Xiaojuan Li, Yifan Liu, Chunxiang Lin & Minghua Liu

  2. School of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350116, China

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  3. Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Ecology-Toxicological Effects & Control for Emerging Contaminants, Putian University, Putian, 351100, China

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Hu, Y., Yang, K., Lin, Y. et al. Performance and mechanistic studies of rapid atenolol degradation through peroxymonosulfate activation by V, Co, and bamboo carbon catalyst. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-024-33657-4

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