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Preparation and characterization of nanosized TiO2 powder as an inorganic adsorbent for aqueous radionuclide Co(II) ions

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In this research TiO2 sample was synthesized by a simple sol–gel method and was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) techniques. The XRD result indicated that the obtained product was anatase titanium dioxide with high purity, the TEM image clearly showed that the particle sizes of TiO2 nanoparticles were in the range of 30–70 nm, and the measured BET surface area of the heated TiO2 nanoparticles was 147.14 m2/g. In this work, the prepared TiO2 sample was used as a new adsorbent for the adsorption of radionuclide Co(II) ions from aqueous solutions, and the influence of pH, contact time, ionic strength and temperature in the presence or absence of humic acid/fulvic acid (HA/FA) were also investigated. The experimental results indicated that the adsorption of Co(II) ions onto TiO2 was strongly pH-dependent. Based on the surface complexation, the presence of HSs enhanced the adsorption of Co(II) ions and the influence of Co(II) adsorption onto FA–TiO2 hybrids was much stronger than that of HA–TiO2 at pH values of 2.0–9.0. Adsorption of Co(II) ions onto TiO2 powder was strongly dependent on ionic strength. The adsorption process mainly occured in the first contact time of 2 h and could be fitted by a pseudo-second-order rate model. The calculated thermodynamic data indicated that the adsorption of Co(II) ions onto TiO2 was a spontaneous process and favorable at high temperatures.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (20605011).

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    Song Wang, Liqiang Tan, Jinlong Jiang, Jing Chen & Liangdong Feng

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Wang, S., Tan, L., Jiang, J. et al. Preparation and characterization of nanosized TiO2 powder as an inorganic adsorbent for aqueous radionuclide Co(II) ions. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 295, 1305–1312 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-012-2296-7

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