N-doped carbon xerogels as adsorbents for the removal of heavy metal ions from aqueous solution

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 7182-7191

  Yang, Bin ^a   Yu, Chengxiang ^a   Yu, Qingni ^a,b   Zhang, Xingwang ^a   Li, Zhongjian ^a   Lei, Lecheng ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b National Key Laboratory of Human Factors Engineering China Astronaut Research and Training Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; CARBON; CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); HEAVY METALS; LEAD; LEAD REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); METAL IONS; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; XEROGELS;

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; ADSORPTION PERFORMANCE; COMMERCIAL ACTIVATED CARBONS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; PSEUDO SECOND ORDER KINETICS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; REMOVAL OF HEAVY METAL IONS; TEXTURAL PROPERTIES;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EID: 84920797777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra12441c     Document Type: Article

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