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Insight into different adsorption behaviors of two fluoroquinolone antibiotics by sediment aggregation fractions

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Sediment, consisting of different aggregation fractions, is a hotspot site for transport and transformation of various pollutants including antibiotics. However, the fate of different antibiotics in aquatic sediments mediated by sediment aggregation fraction adsorption and the mechanism behinds are still unclear. In this study, we investigated the adsorption behavior of two fluoroquinolone antibiotics (ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin) on four aggregation fractions separated from the sediment of Taihu Lake, a typical lake contaminated by antibiotics in China. The results showed that the adsorption of ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin fitted the Freundlich model, irrespective of sediment aggregation size. The adsorption of ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin was depended on the size of sediment aggregation fractions, and the macroaggregation (> 200 μm) exhibited the strongest capacity, followed by large microaggregation (63–200 μm), medium microaggregation (20–63 μm), and small and primary microaggregation (< 20 μm). This fraction size-dependent effects of sediment aggregations on antibiotic adsorption might be closely related to the differences in their specific surface areas, organic matter contents, and surface functional groups. The adsorption of ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin by sediment aggregation fractions was characterized by a combination of chemical and physical adsorptions, with the former being the dominant process. Compared with ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin could be more rapidly and easily absorbed by four sediment aggregation fractions, and more readily complexed with carboxyl groups on macroaggregation surface. The adsorption of two antibiotics by extracellular polymeric substance showed that tryptophan and tyrosine protein-like, humic-like substance on the surface of sediment could bind to both antibiotics through a complexation reaction. The π-π electron donor–acceptor interaction and hydrogen bonds were responsible for the antibiotic adsorption by sediment aggregation.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52022028, No. 52279061) and the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 92047201, No. 92047303).

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Conceptualization: Bo Zhang; Writing – original draft preparation: Bo Zhang; Formal analysis and investigation: Bo Zhang, Juan Chen; Writing—review and editing: Juan Chen; Funding acquisition: Juan Chen, Peifang Wang; Project administration: Juan Chen, Peifang Wang; Methodology: Chao Wang, Ge Cui; Software: Juan Chen, Jingjing Zhang; Supervision: Chao Wang; Data curation: Ge Cui; Validation: Yu Hu; Visualization: Han Gao.

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• Antibiotics adsorption was depended on the size of sediment aggregation fractions.

• Sediment aggregation had a stronger affinity to ciprofloxacin than ofloxacin.

• Ciprofloxacin was complexed with carboxyl groups on macroaggregation surface.

• Antibiotics adsorption was by complexation, π-π electron interaction, and H bond.

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Zhang, B., Chen, J., Wang, C. et al. Insight into different adsorption behaviors of two fluoroquinolone antibiotics by sediment aggregation fractions. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 24329–24343 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-23947-0

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