Phosphate Capture Enhancement Using Designed Iron Oxide-Based Nanostructures.

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Date publication

février 2023

Journal

Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr BEGIN-COLIN Sylvie , Dr MERTZ Damien

Tous les auteurs :
Ramirez PD, Lee C, Fedderwitz R, Clavijo AR, Barbosa DPP, Julliot M, Vaz-Ramos J, Begin D, Le Calvé S, Zaloszyc A, Choquet P, Soler MAG, Mertz D, Kofinas P, Piao Y, Begin-Colin S

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36770547

Résumé

Phosphates in high concentrations are harmful pollutants for the environment, and new and cheap solutions are currently needed for phosphate removal from polluted liquid media. Iron oxide nanoparticles show a promising capacity for removing phosphates from polluted media and can be easily separated from polluted media under an external magnetic field. However, they have to display a high surface area allowing high removal pollutant capacity while preserving their magnetic properties. In that context, the reproducible synthesis of magnetic iron oxide raspberry-shaped nanostructures (RSNs) by a modified polyol solvothermal method has been optimized, and the conditions to dope the latter with cobalt, zinc, and aluminum to improve the phosphate adsorption have been determined. These RSNs consist of oriented aggregates of iron oxide nanocrystals, providing a very high saturation magnetization and a superparamagnetic behavior that favor colloidal stability. Finally, the adsorption of phosphates as a function of pH, time, and phosphate concentration has been studied. The undoped and especially aluminum-doped RSNs were demonstrated to be very effective phosphate adsorbents, and they can be extracted from the media by applying a magnet.