A Facile Strategy to Fabricate Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron Decorated Graphene Oxide Composite for Dechloridation of Trichloroacetic Acid in Water

Huixuan Zhang; Xinyi Zhang; Ruonan Guo; Qingfeng Cheng; Xiuwen Cheng

doi:10.1166/jnn.2018.16374

A Facile Strategy to Fabricate Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron Decorated Graphene Oxide Composite for Dechloridation of Trichloroacetic Acid in Water

J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2018 Dec 1;18(12):8252-8257. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2018.16374.

Authors

Huixuan Zhang¹, Xinyi Zhang¹, Ruonan Guo¹, Qingfeng Cheng², Xiuwen Cheng¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China.
² College of Resources and Environment, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, P. R. China.

PMID: 30189944
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2018.16374

Abstract

In this study, nanoscale zero-valent iron decorated graphene oxide (NZVI/GO) composite was fabricated through a reduction process in the presence of sodium borohydride (NaBH4) solution. Subsequently, physicochemical properties of the NZVI/GO composites were characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), N2 adsorption/desorption, X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and Raman spectra. Results indicated that Fe species existed in the form of Fe0, which uniformly dispersed on the surface of GO. Furthermore, the performance of NZVI/GO was evaluated by the degradation of tichloroacetic acid (TCAA). TCAA can be rapidly degraded by NZVI/GO. This paper provides a promising strategy to synthesize versatile catalyst which would be potentially applied in sewage treatment to degrade chlorinated organic compounds.