Rice husks as a sustainable silica source for hierarchical flower-like metal silicate architectures assembled into ultrathin nanosheets for adsorption and catalysis

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 321, Issue , 2017, Pages 92-102

  Zhang, Shouwei ^a,b   Gao, Huihui ^a   Li, Jiaxing ^b,c   Huang, Yongshun ^b   Alsaedi, Ahmed ^c   Hayat, Tasawar ^c,d   Xu, Xijin ^a   Wang, Xiangke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS   (China)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Catalysis; Hierarchical flower like; Metal silicate; Sustainable silica source

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CATALYSIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; COBALT COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; METALS; NANOSHEETS; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICA; SILICATES; URANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; COMPLEX ARCHITECTURES; FLOWER-LIKE MORPHOLOGIES; HIERARCHICAL FLOWER-LIKE; HIGH SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; METAL SILICATES; SILICA SOURCES; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

4 NITROPHENOL; ADSORBENT; COBALT SILICATE; LEAD; MAGNESIUM SILICATE; NANOSHEET; NICKEL NANOPARTICLE; NICKEL SILICATE; SILICA NANOPARTICLE; SILICATE; SILICON; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC SILICATE; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADSORPTION; CATALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; NANOPARTICLE; PLANT RESIDUE; RICE; SILICA; SILICATE;

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION; PARTICLE SIZE; RICE HUSK; SURFACE AREA; SYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ORYZA; PLANT EPIDERMIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADSORPTION; CATALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORYZA; PLANT EPIDERMIS; SILICATES; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84989810896     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.09.004     Document Type: Article

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