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Hydrothermal synthesis of 3D hollow porous Fe3O4 microspheres towards catalytic removal of organic pollutants

  • Xiansong Wang
  • , He Huang
  • , Guoqing Li
  • , Yi Liu
  • , Jiale Huang
  • , Da Peng Yang
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Quanzhou Normal University
  • Xiamen University

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Abstract

Three-dimensional hollow porous superparamagnetic Fe3O4 microspheres were synthesized via a facile hydrothermal process. A series of characterizations done with X-ray diffraction, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy indicated that the production of Fe3O4 microspheres possessed good monodispersity, uniform size distribution, hollow and porous structural characters, and strong superparamagnetic behavior. The obtained Fe3O4 microspheres have a diameter of ca. 300 nm, which is composed of many interconnected nanoparticles with a size of ca. 20 nm. The saturation magnetization is 80.6 emu·g-1. The as-prepared products had promising applications as novel catalysts to remove organic pollutants (methylene blue) from wastewater in the presence of H2O2 and ultrasound irradiation.

Original languageEnglish
Article number648
JournalNanoscale Research Letters
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Enzyme mimetics
  • FeO microspheres
  • Hydrothermal synthesis
  • Organic pollutants
  • Porous

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