Ultra-high adsorption of cationic methylene blue on two dimensional titanate nanosheets

Huiyu Yuan; Sainan Ma; Xinyu Wang; Hui Long; Xinhua Zhao; Daoyuan Yang; Wai Hung Lo; Yuen Hong Tsang

doi:10.1039/c8ra10172h

Ultra-high adsorption of cationic methylene blue on two dimensional titanate nanosheets

RSC Adv. 2019 Feb 18;9(11):5891-5894. doi: 10.1039/c8ra10172h.

Authors

Huiyu Yuan^{1

2

3}, Sainan Ma², Xinyu Wang², Hui Long^{1

2}, Xinhua Zhao², Daoyuan Yang³, Wai Hung Lo⁴, Yuen Hong Tsang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute Shenzhen People's Republic of China [email protected].
² Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong People's Republic of China.
³ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou People's Republic of China.
⁴ Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom Kowloon Hong Kong People's Republic of China.

Abstract

In this work, we examined the performance of 2D titanate nanosheets for dye adsorption. Their adsorption capacity for methylene blue (MB) is up to 3937 mg g^-1, which is more than 10 times higher than active carbon and occupies the highest place among all the reports.