Issue 26, 2015

Nitrate uptake using mesoporous silica embedded with zero-valent palladium nanoparticles

Abstract

In situ reduction of palladium(II) acetylacetonate during the synthesis of SBA-15 mesoporous silica affords a material impregnated with palladium nanoparticles. The synthesis is at neutral pH and ambient conditions using a continuous flow vortex fluidic device with high shear dynamic thin films, followed by calcination. The SBA-15 is available with considerably reduced processing time relative to the conventional synthesis of mesoporous silica, with the material being effective for nitrate-nitrogen [NO3-N] removal from aqueous solutions, at 41% within the first 16 hours, or around 36% for the same period after being recycled.

Graphical abstract: Nitrate uptake using mesoporous silica embedded with zero-valent palladium nanoparticles

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Dec 2014
Accepted
11 Feb 2015
First published
11 Feb 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 20557-20561

Author version available

Nitrate uptake using mesoporous silica embedded with zero-valent palladium nanoparticles

C. L. Tong, E. Eroglu, X. Duan, R. N. Lamb, K. Jarrett, C. E. Buckley and C. L. Raston, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 20557 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA16531D

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