Arsenic removal from water/wastewater using adsorbents—A critical review

Keywords: Fragmentation Chain-Transfer ; Self-Assembled Monolayers ; Walled Carbon Nanotubes ; Well-Defined Polymer ; Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization ; Block-Copolymer Brushes ; Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Brushes ; Transfer Raft Polymerization ; Quartz-Crystal Microbalance ; Poly(Acrylic Acid) Brushes Reference EPFL-REVIEW-148464doi:10.1021/cr900045aView record in Web of Science Record created on 2010-04-23, modified on 2017-05-10

Polymer Brushes via Surface-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization: Synthesis, Characterization, Properties, and Applications

The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical properties of interfaces and has given rise to great advances in surface and interface engineering. Polymer brushes are defined as thin polymer films in which the individual polymer chains are tethered by one chain end to a solid interface. Significant advances have been made over the past years in the field of polymer brushes. This includes novel developments in SI-CRP, as well as the emergence of novel applications such as catalysis, electronics, nanomaterial synthesis and biosensing. Additionally, polymer brushes prepared via SI-CRP have been utilized to modify the surface of novel substrates such as natural fibers, polymer nanofibers, mesoporous materials, graphene, viruses and protein nanoparticles. The last years have also seen exciting advances in the chemical and physical characterization of polymer brushes, as well as an ev...

Surface-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization: State-of-the-Art, Opportunities, and Challenges in Surface and Interface Engineering with Polymer Brushes

Biomolecule−Mercury Interactions: Modalities of DNA Base−Mercury Binding Mechanisms. Remediation Strategies

Radical Polymerization and Copper(0) Mediated Polymerization): From Fundamentals to Bioapplications Cyrille Boyer,*,†,‡ Nathaniel Alan Corrigan,‡ Kenward Jung,‡ Diep Nguyen,‡ Thuy-Khanh Nguyen,‡ Nik Nik M. Adnan,†,‡ Susan Oliver,†,‡ Sivaprakash Shanmugam,‡ and Jonathan Yeow†,‡ †Australian Centre for Nanomedicine, and ‡Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia

Copper-Mediated Living Radical Polymerization (Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and Copper(0) Mediated Polymerization): From Fundamentals to Bioapplications

Effects of ring substituents on the protective properties of self-assembled benzenethiols on copper

Degradation of monomethylmercury chloride by hydroxyl radicals in simulated natural waters.

Copper corrosion in mildly alkaline water with the disinfectant monochloramine

Arsenate and methylated arsenicals, such as dimethylarsinate (DMA) and monomethylarsonate (MMA), are being found with increasing frequency in natural water systems. The mobility and bioavailability of these arsenic species in the environment are strongly influenced by their interactions with mineral surface, especially iron and aluminum oxides. Goethite (α-FeOOH), one of the most abundant ferric (hydr)oxides in natural systems, has a high retention capacity for arsenic species. Unfortunately, the sorption mechanism for the species is not completely understood, which limits our ability to model their behavior in natural systems. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of replacing a hydroxyl group with a methyl group on the adsorption behaviors of arsenic (V) species using adsorption edges, the influence of the background electrolyte on arsenic adsorption, and their effect on the zeta potential of goethite. The affinity of the three species to the goethite surface decreases in the order of AsO4 = MMA > DMA. The uptake of DMA and MMA is independent of the concentration of background electrolyte, indicating that both species form inner-sphere complexes on the goethite surface and the most charge of adsorbed DMA and MMA locates at the surface plane. Arsenate uptake increases with increasing concentrations of background electrolyte at pH above 4, possibly due to that the charge of adsorbed arsenate is distributed between the surface plane and another electrostatic plane. DMA and lower concentrations of MMA have small effect on the zeta potential, whereas the zeta potential of goethite decreases in the presence of arsenate. The small effect on zeta potential of DMA or MMA adsorption suggests that the sorption sites for the anions is not important in controlling the surface charge. This observation is inconsistent with most adsorption models that postulate a singly coordinated hydroxyls contributing to both the adsorption and the surface charge, but supports the thesis that the charge on the goethite surface comes primarily from protonation of the triply bound oxygen atoms on the surface.

Effect of replacing a hydroxyl group with a methyl group on arsenic (V) species adsorption on goethite (α-FeOOH)

Self-assembled organic thin films of dodecanethiol (DT), mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT), benzotriazole (BTA), imidazole (IMD) and benzothiazole (BT) are formed by adsorption on the surface of copper thin film used in ultralarge-scale integrated circuits. The films are characterized by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The inhibition of corrosion of these organic thin films is investigated in aerated 0.5 M H2SO4 solutions by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and potentiodynamic polarization techniques. The presence of these films reduced corrosion by blocking the copper surface from the oxygen dissolved in the acid medium. The relative inhibition efficiencies of these inhibiting agents in preventing copper oxidation are found to be in the order of DT>MBT>BT>BTA>IMD. The effectiveness of the inhibitors increased with the temperature, concentration of the inhibitors, and duration of immersion in the solution. An adsorption model is proposed on the basis of variation of the impedance according to the inhibitor concentration. The stability and packing of the inhibitors on the surface appear to be the most important factors in determining the inhibitive efficiency of the inhibitors.

S. O. Pehkonen

Papers

Effects of ring substituents on the protective properties of self-assembled benzenethiols on copper

Degradation of monomethylmercury chloride by hydroxyl radicals in simulated natural waters.

Copper corrosion in mildly alkaline water with the disinfectant monochloramine

Effect of replacing a hydroxyl group with a methyl group on arsenic (V) species adsorption on goethite (α-FeOOH)

Self-assembled organic thin films on electroplated copper for prevention of corrosion