Methylene Blue Catalytic Degradation Using Silver and Magnetite Nanoparticles Functionalized with a Poly(ionic liquid) Based on Quaternized Dialkylethanolamine with 2-Acrylamido-2-methylpropane Sulfonate- co-Vinylpyrrolidone

Ayman M Atta; Yaser M Moustafa; Hamad A Al-Lohedan; Abdelrahman O Ezzat; Ahmed I Hashem

doi:10.1021/acsomega.9b03610

Methylene Blue Catalytic Degradation Using Silver and Magnetite Nanoparticles Functionalized with a Poly(ionic liquid) Based on Quaternized Dialkylethanolamine with 2-Acrylamido-2-methylpropane Sulfonate- co-Vinylpyrrolidone

ACS Omega. 2020 Feb 10;5(6):2829-2842. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.9b03610. eCollection 2020 Feb 18.

Authors

Ayman M Atta¹, Yaser M Moustafa², Hamad A Al-Lohedan¹, Abdelrahman O Ezzat¹, Ahmed I Hashem³

Affiliations

¹ Surfactants Research Chair, Chemistry Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
² Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Nasr City, Cairo 11727, Egypt.
³ Chemistry Department, College of Science, Ain Shams University, Abasia, Cairo 11566, Egypt.

Abstract

Catalytic degradation of organic water pollutants has emerged as a cost- and energy-effective technique to treat wastewater. In this work, new silver and magnetite nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared with a protic poly(ionic liquid) (PIL) based on a quaternized diethylethanolamine cation combined with 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonate-co-vinylpyrrolidone (QAMPSA/VP) as a capping and a reducing agent. The morphology, particle size, surface charge, thermal stability, and magnetic properties of QAMPS/VP-Ag and Fe₃O₄ NPs were investigated to determine the efficiency of the PIL as a reducing and a capping agent to protect the produced NPs from oxidation or thermal degradation. The activation energy, enthalpy, and entropy of the catalytic degradation of the cationic methylene blue (MB) dye in the presence of QAMPS/VP-Ag and Fe₃O₄ NPs were determined. The data elucidated that MB was completely degraded in 8 min in the presence of QAMPS/VP-Fe₃O₄ NPs as a Fenton oxidation catalyst. Moreover, their good magnetic properties allowed their easy separation and reuse for five cycles without losing their magnetic or catalytic properties.