Sulfonated Graphene Nanosheets as a Superb Adsorbent for Various Environmental Pollutants in Water

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 7364-7372

  Shen, Yi ^a,b   Chen, Baoliang ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Organic Pollution Process and Control   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; AGGLOMERATION; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GRAPHENE; NANOSHEETS; POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION CAPABILITY; ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; DIAZOTIZATION REACTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HYDROPHILIC SURFACES; OXYGEN CONTAINING GROUPS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SATURATED ADSORPTION CAPACITY;

WATER POLLUTION;

ADSORBENT; GRAPHENE OXIDE; METHYLENE BLUE; NANOPARTICLE; NANOSHEET; PHENANTHRENE; SULFANILIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CADMIUM; GRAPHITE; OXIDE; PHENANTHRENE DERIVATIVE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION; CARBON; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLLUTANT; WATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; DIAZOTIZATION; DISPERSION; REACTION ANALYSIS; SULFONATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WATER MANAGEMENT; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION; CADMIUM; GRAPHITE; KINETICS; METHYLENE BLUE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDES; PHENANTHRENES; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SULFONIC ACIDS; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84934909104     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01057     Document Type: Article

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