Diffusion-controlled simultaneous sensing and scavenging of heavy metal ions in water using atomically precise cluster-cellulose nanocrystal composites

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 6167-6176

  Mohammed, Nishil ^a   Baidya, Avijit ^b   Murugesan, Vasanthanarayan ^b   Kumar, Avula Anil ^b   Ganayee, Mohd Azhardin ^b   Mohanty, Jyoti Sarita ^b   Tam, Kam Chiu ^a   Pradeep, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Cellulose nanocrystals; Diffusion; Hydrogels; Nanoclusters; Nanocomposites; Sensing; Water Purification

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BODY FLUIDS; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; DIFFUSION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD COMPOUNDS; HEAVY METALS; HYDROGELS; MERCURY (METAL); METAL IONS; METALS; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOCRYSTALS; PURIFICATION; QUENCHING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER POLLUTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BATCH ADSORPTION EXPERIMENTS; CELLULOSE NANO-CRYSTALS; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PROTECTED GOLD NANOCLUSTERS; SENSING; WATER PURIFICATION;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

COMPOSITES; HEAVY METALS; IONS; MERCURY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84994411121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b01674     Document Type: Article

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