Catalytic carbonization of polypropylene into cup-stacked carbon nanotubes with high performances in adsorption of heavy metallic ions and organic dyes

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 248, Issue , 2014, Pages 27-40

  Gong, Jiang ^a,b   Feng, Jingdong ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Jiang, Zhiwei ^a,b   Chen, Xuecheng ^a,c   Mijowska, Ewa ^c   Wen, Xin ^a   Tang, Tao ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Catalytic carbonization; Cup stacked carbon nanotubes; Heavy metallic ions; Organic dyes; Polypropylene

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CARBON NANOTUBES; CARBONIZATION; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; DEGRADATION; HALOGENATION; HYDROCARBONS; PHASE STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CATALYTIC EFFICIENCIES; CHLORINATED COMPOUNDS; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; FLUORINATED COMPOUND; HALOGENATED COMPOUNDS; HEAVY METALLIC IONS; ORGANIC DYE; THERMAL GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84897434131     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.01.107     Document Type: Article

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