Chitosan-based aerogels with high adsorption performance.
New natural polymer-based aerogels, cross-linked chitosan aerogels, were prepared by the sol-gel route with glutaradehyde, glyoxal, and formaldehyde as cross-linkers. The alcogels were dried by supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) fluid extraction. The resulting materials were characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), nitrogen adsorption/desorption analysis, and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. Furthermore, the adsorption of the anionic surfactant sodium dodecylbenzene-sulfonate (SDBS) from aqueous solution by the materials was investigated. The aerogels exhibit high adsorption capability, can remove SDBS from acidic aqueous solutions, and have potential applications in controlling SDBS pollution.
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, PR China.
Xinhong
X
Chang
Dairong
D
Chen
Xiuling
X
Jiao
D000327:Adsorption; D000388:Air; D048271:Chitosan / Q000737:chemistry*; D005782:Gels / Q000737:chemistry; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000737:chemistry; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared
D005782:Gels; D048271:Chitosan; D009584:Nitrogen