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Flower-like β-Ni(OH)2 Nanoarchitectonics for Efficient Adsorption and Degradation to Cresol Red Dye

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In this work, flower-like β-Ni(OH)2 nanoarchitectonic particles were successfully synthesized via a simple homogeneous precipitation method. The crystal structure and morphology were detected by x-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), respectively. The influence of the dosage of β-Ni(OH)2 and potassium persulfate (PS) on adsorption and degradation of cresol red dye was studied. The results indicate that when the dosage of β-Ni(OH)2 was larger than 5 g/L, the major reason for cresol red dye removal was adsorption due to its large specific surface area of 45 m2/g. However, when the dosage of β-Ni(OH)2 was 0.5–0.7 g/L, the adsorption effect on cresol red dye was not obvious, but the degradation effect became significant after adding 0.3–0.5 mmol/L PS, benefiting from the strong activation of PS to generate ·SO4−, ·OH− and S2O8− radicals by β-Ni(OH)2. The degradation efficiency of 0.1 mmol/L cresol red dye reached over 98% in a neutral or alkaline medium. In particular, at pH = 9, the initial degradation efficiency was 99.9% and remained 99.25% after eight cycles. Thus, the high activity and stability make β-Ni(OH)2 a promising catalyst for activating persulfate to degrade organic pollutants.

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WJ: Conceptualization, methodology, data curation, formal analysis, writing-original draft, writing & editing, project administration, visualization. PL, ZZ and HZ: Investigation, resources, data collection, formal analysis. LZ: Conceptualization, validation, writing & editing, supervision, project administration, funding acquisition.

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Jiao, W., Liu, P., Zhao, Z. et al. Flower-like β-Ni(OH)2 Nanoarchitectonics for Efficient Adsorption and Degradation to Cresol Red Dye. J. Electron. Mater. 52, 2655–2664 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-023-10227-x

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