Removal of bisphenol a and 17β-estradiol by single-walled carbon nanotubes in aqueous solution: Adsorption and molecular modeling

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 223, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3281-3293

  Zaib, Qammer ^a   Khan, Iftheker A ^a   Saleh, Navid B ^a   Flora, Joseph R V ^a   Park, Yong Gyun ^b   Yoon, Yeomin ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

^b GS Engineering and Construction Corp   (South Korea)

Author keywords

17 Estradiol; Adsorption energy; Adsorption kinetics; Bisphenol A; Density functional theory; Singlewalled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ACID ETCHING; ADSORPTION ENERGIES; ADSORPTION KINETICS; AFTER-TREATMENT; AMMONIUM PERSULFATE; AQUEOUS SYSTEM; BISPHENOL A; CONTACT TIME; MOLECULAR LEVELS; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; PREFERENTIAL SORPTION; PSEUDO-SECOND ORDER MODEL; SORPTION EXPERIMENTS; SORPTION MECHANISM; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GRAPHENE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCAFFOLDS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION;

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; AMMONIA; ESTRADIOL; NANOMATERIAL; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; MODELING; PHENOL; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REACTION KINETICS;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ADSORPTION KINETICS; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR MODEL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

EID: 84862195437     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-012-1109-5     Document Type: Article

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