Author Affiliations
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China2Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, Chinashow less
1. XRD patterns of the synthesized Ti3AlC2, Ti3C2Tx, Na-Ti3C2Tx and Na-Ti3C2Tx-Eu
2. SEM images of Na-Ti3C2Tx before (a-b), and after (c-d) adsorption of Eu(III), with EDS analysis resulted of Na-Ti3C2Tx before (e) and after (f) adsorption of Eu(III)
3. Effect of sorbent dose on Eu(III) removal by Na-Ti3C2Tx (pH=(4.0±0.1), C0=20 mg/L)
4. Effect of solution pH and ionic strength on removal of Eu(III) by Na-Ti3C2Tx (a), Zeta potential of Na-Ti3C2Tx (b), and distribution of Eu(III) species in aqueous solution as a function of pH calculated using the MEDUSA program (c)
5. Time-dependent adsorption of Eu(III) on Na-Ti3C2Tx (pH= (4.0±0.1), T = 293 K, m/V = 0.4 g/L) (a), and pseudo-second- order kinetic plots of Eu(III) on Na-Ti3C2Tx (b)
6. (a) Isotherms of Na-Ti3C2Tx towards Eu(III) under the conditions of pH (4.0±0.1) and m/V=0.40 g/L, and (b) plot of lnKdvs 1/T
7. (A) Eu L 3 edge k3-weighted EXAFS spectra (solid lines) and the best theoretical fits (dots lines) of Eu-loaded Na-Ti3C2Tx samples under different solution pH, and (B) corresponding non-phase shift corrected Fourier transforms
Sample | Pseudo-first-order model | Pseudo-second-order model |
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Na-Ti3C2Tx | k1/min-1 | R2 | k2/(g·mg-1·min-1) | R2 | 0.0212 | 0.4111 | 0.1312 | 0.9999 |
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Table 1. Optimized parameters of pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order kinetic models
Models | Parameters | Temperature/K |
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298 | 306 | 314 | 322 |
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Langmuir | qm/(mg·g-1) | 54.05 | 57.14 | 66.67 | 88.50 | KL/(L·mg-1) | 0.49 | 5.00 | 3.49 | 1.04 | R2 | 0.9931 | 0.9999 | 0.9981 | 0.9973 | Freundlich | KF/(mg1-n·Ln·g-1) | 33.52 | 40.87 | 50.37 | 60.87 | 1/n | 9.78 | 10.50 | 10.88 | 10.92 | R2 | 0.9436 | 0.9487 | 0.9212 | 0.9645 |
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Table 2. Fitting parameters of Langmuir and Freundlich models
Temperature/K | ΔH/(kJ·mol-1) | ΔS/(J·mol-1·K-1) | ΔG/(kJ·mol-1) |
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298 | 24.539 | 134.81 | -15.57 | 306 | -16.65 | 314 | -17.73 | 322 | -18.80 |
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Table 3. Thermodynamic parameters for removal of Eu(III) by Na-Ti3C2Tx
Sample | Path | CNa | Rb/nm | σ2c/(×10-4, nm2) | ΔEd/eV | R-factore |
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Eu3+(aq) | Eu-O | (9.0±0.6) | (0.243±0.001) | 0.8 | (3.9±0.6) | 0.006 | pH=4.0 | Eu-O | (9.1±1.6) | (0.243±0.002) | 0.9 | (2.4±1.6) | 0.019 | pH=5.0 | Eu-O | (8.7±1.4) | (0.243±0.001) | 0.9 | (2.6±1.5) | 0.016 | pH=6.0 | Eu-O | (7.8±0.9) | (0.242±0.001) | 1.0 | (2.2±1.1) | 0.008 |
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Table 4. Fitting parameters extracted from least-squares fitting analysis of EXAFS spectra