ZIF-8-Derived Hollow Carbon for Efficient Adsorption of Antibiotics

Hongmei Tang; Wenyao Li; Haishun Jiang; Runjia Lin; Zhe Wang; Jianghong Wu; Guanjie He; Paul Robert Shearing; Dan John Leslie Brett

doi:10.3390/nano9010117

ZIF-8-Derived Hollow Carbon for Efficient Adsorption of Antibiotics

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2019 Jan 18;9(1):117. doi: 10.3390/nano9010117.

Authors

Hongmei Tang¹, Wenyao Li², Haishun Jiang³, Runjia Lin⁴, Zhe Wang⁵, Jianghong Wu⁶, Guanjie He⁷, Paul Robert Shearing⁸, Dan John Leslie Brett⁹

Affiliations

¹ School of Materials Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China. neview2015@163.com.
² School of Materials Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China. liwenyao314@gmail.com.
³ School of Materials Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China. jhaishun@163.com.
⁴ Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK. runjia.lin.16@ucl.ac.uk.
⁵ School of Materials Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China. 18317188857@163.com.
⁶ College of Health Science and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, China. wujianghong@sztu.edu.cn.
⁷ Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK. g.he@ucl.ac.uk.
⁸ Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK. wujianghong@sztu.edu.cn.
⁹ Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK. d.brett@ucl.ac.uk.

Abstract

The harmful nature of high concentrations of antibiotics to humans and animals requires the urgent development of novel materials and techniques for their absorption. In this work, CTAB (Cetyltrimethyl Ammonium Bromide)-assisted synthesis of ZIF-8 (zeolitic imidazolate framework)-derived hollow carbon (ZHC) was designed, prepared, and used as a high-performance adsorbent, and further evaluated by Langmuir and Freundlich isothermal adsorption experiments, dynamic analysis, as well as theoretical calculation. The maximum capacities of ZHC for adsorbing tetracycline (TC), norfloxacin (NFO), and levofloxacin (OFO) are 267.3, 125.6, and 227.8 mg g^-1, respectively, which delivers superior adsorptive performance when compared to widely studied inorganic adsorbates. The design concept of ZIF-8-derived hollow carbon material provides guidance and insights for the efficient adsorbent of environmental antibiotics.

Keywords: ZIF-8; adsorbent; antibiotics; hollow carbon.

Grants and funding

51602193, 21601122, 51701022/National Natural Science Foundation of China