A facile approach to fabricate porous nanocomposite gels based on partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide and cellulose nanocrystals for adsorbing methylene blue at low concentrations

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 263, Issue , 2013, Pages 334-341

  Zhou, Chengjun ^a   Lee, Sunyoung ^b   Dooley, Kerry ^c   Wu, Qinglin ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Korea Forest Research Institute   (South Korea)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs); Methylene blue; Nanocomposite gels; Partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM); Porosity

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; ELECTROSPINNING; GELS; MORPHOLOGY; POROSITY;

CELLULOSE NANO-CRYSTALS; CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTAL (CNCS); ELECTROSPINNING PARAMETERS; METHYLENE BLUE; NANO-COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; NANOCOMPOSITE GELS; PARTIALLY HYDROLYZED POLYACRYLAMIDE; ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

CELLULOSE; METHYLENE BLUE; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOCRYSTAL; POLYACRYLAMIDE;

ADSORPTION; CELLULOSE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DYE; ESTER; GEL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SWELLING;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; ELECTROSPINNING; ESTERIFICATION; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDROGEL; NANOFABRICATION; POROSITY;

ACRYLAMIDE; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; GELS; METHYLENE BLUE; POLYACRYLICS; POROSITY;

CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTALS (CNCS); METHYLENE BLUE; NANOCOMPOSITE GELS; PARTIALLY HYDROLYZED POLYACRYLAMIDE (HPAM); POROSITY;

ACRYLIC RESINS; ADSORPTION; CELLULOSE; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHYLENE BLUE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SOLVENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84889083202     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2013.07.047     Document Type: Article

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