Facile synthesis of alumina-decorated multi-walled carbon nanotubes for simultaneous adsorption of cadmium ion and trichloroethylene

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 273, Issue , 2015, Pages 101-110

  Liang, Jie ^a   Liu, Junfeng ^a   Yuan, Xingzhong ^a   Dong, Haoran ^a   Zeng, Guangming ^a   Wu, Haipeng ^a   Wang, Hou ^a   Liu, Jiayu ^a   Hua, Shanshan ^a   Zhang, Shuqu ^a   Yu, Zhigang ^a   He, Xiaoxiao ^a   He, Yan ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alumina; Cd(II) ion; Groundwater; Multi walled carbon nanotubes; Simultaneous adsorption; Trichloroethylene

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; ANESTHETICS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBON; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN BONDS; IONS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; YARN;

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; AGGREGATION PROPERTY; FUNCTIONALIZED MWCNTS; HYDROGEN BOND INTERACTION; INTRA-PARTICLE DIFFUSION; PSEUDO-SECOND-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84925965762     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2015.03.069     Document Type: Article

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