Selective mercury adsorption and enrichment enabled by phenylic carboxyl functionalized poly(pyrrole methane)s chelating polymers

Wang, Zhenyu, Liu, Yunpeng, Zhang, Wenlong, Wang, Yubing, Xu, Hao, Yang, Liu, Feng, Jiangtao, Hou, Bo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9918-8223, Li, Mingtao and Yan, Wei 2023. Selective mercury adsorption and enrichment enabled by phenylic carboxyl functionalized poly(pyrrole methane)s chelating polymers. Science of the Total Environment 858 (P1) , 159870. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159870

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Abstract

Mercury decontamination from water requires highly effective and efficient methods for maintaining public health and environmental protection. Herein, based on the coordination theory between functional groups and metal ions, we proposed phenylic carboxyl group-based poly(pyrrole methane)s (PPDCBAs) as highly efficient mercury removal materials for environmental remediation applications. It was found that PPDCBAs can efficiently adsorb and remove mercury(II) from aqueous solutions by functionalizing the molecular structure with phenylic carboxyl groups. Among the as-prepared PPDCBAs, poly[pyrrole-2, 5-diyl (4-carboxybenzylidane)] (PPD4CBA) with the carboxyl group at the para position can not only adsorb mercury over 1400 mg⋅g−1 but also achieve a 92.5 % mercury(II) uptake within 100 min by a very low dosage of 0.1 g⋅L−1. In addition, PPDCBAs exhibited excellent adsorption selectivity for mercury(II) compared with copper(II), cadmium(II), zinc(II) and lead(II). Furthermore, as determined by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and the density functional theory (DFT) calculation, the mercury removal was found to be mainly dependent on the high density of chelating sites, the phenylic carboxyl moieties, which helped us to realize an ultra-trace amount mercury removal (from 10.8 μg⋅L−1 to 0.6–0.8 μg⋅L−1) for meeting drinking water standard requirements (1.0 μg⋅L−1).

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0048-9697
Funders:	Royal Society; Royal Society of Chemistry
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	2 November 2022
Date of Acceptance:	27 October 2022
Last Modified:	13 Nov 2024 12:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/153940

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