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Modification of microcrystalline cellulose with pyridone derivatives for removal of cationic dyes from aqueous solutions

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Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) was modified with pyridone derivatives such as pyridone diester (PDE) and pyridone diacid (PDA) by using succinic acid anhydride as a linker. The modified MCCs were characterized by the fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, thermal gravimetric analysis, elemental analysis and solid state 13C NMR. The adsorption capacities of the modified MCCs to cationic dyes were examined by using methylene blue (MB) as a model dye. It was found that the kinetic adsorption data followed the pseudo-second-order kinetic model, and the adsorption equilibriums were reached less than 10 min. The isothermal adsorption data were fitted with the Langmuir isotherm model very well, from which the maximum adsorption capacities of the MCCs modified with PDE and PDA were determined to be 101.01 and 142.86 mg/g, respectively. Further investigation showed that the modified MCCs were pH-dependent for adsorption of MB in aqueous solutions. The modified MCCs could be used for removal of MB from an aqueous solution at pH 8, and reused by regeneration in an acidic solution. It was tested that the modified MCCs had a high reusability for removal of MB from aqueous solutions, and still maintained high adsorption capacities even after multiple cycles of desorption–adsorption processes. Hence, the MCCs modified with PDE and PDA could be an effective and efficient approach to removal of cationic dyes from aqueous solutions.

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The work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. JUSRP11445 & JUSRP51505), Cooperative Innovation Fund-Prospective Project of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BY2015019-09) and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (Grant No. BK20150134).

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    Chang Sun, Zhiyong Huang, Jiaxin Wang, Liming Rao, Jingjing Zhang, Jiao Yu, Jinmei Du & Changhai Xu

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Sun, C., Huang, Z., Wang, J. et al. Modification of microcrystalline cellulose with pyridone derivatives for removal of cationic dyes from aqueous solutions. Cellulose 23, 2917–2927 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-016-1024-9

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