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Polymers and Polymer Composites for Adsorptive Removal of Dyes in Water Treatment

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The discharge of wastewater containing dyes causes severe problems worldwide, which must be properly treated before entering the environment. Adsorption is believed to be one of the favourable techniques to remove dyes because of its environmental and economic sustainability. This chapter reviewed the recent development of polymers and polymer composites reported as adsorbents for treating dye-contaminated wastewater, including surface modification/functionalization of polymers, polyaniline and its composites, magnetic polymer composites, polymer/clay composites and polymer/by-products or waste composites. The adsorption performance of adsorbents was discussed in correlation with a number of factors, such as the properties of dyes, surface chemistry or structures of adsorbents, as well as operation conditions, e.g. initial dye concentration, solution pH, temperature, and the presence of other salts, etc. In addition, the regeneration and reusability of developed adsorbents were covered.

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Abbreviations

AB 25:

Acid blue 25

AF:

Acid fuchsin

AB:

Amido black 10B

AS:

Almond shell waste

APT:

Attapulgite

BY 28:

Basic yellow 28

BF:

Basic fuchsin

BV 14:

Basic violet 14

CFA:

Coal fly ash

CNT:

Carbon nanotube

CMC:

Carboxymethyl cellulose

mCS/CNT:

Magnetic chitosan-decorated carbon nanotube

CR:

Congo red

CV:

Crystal violet

Bent/CMC-g-P(DMAEMA):

Carboxymethyl cellulose grafted by poly(2-(dimethylamino) ethyl methacrylate) modified bentonite

DB:

Direct blue 199

ES:

Emeraldine salt

EB:

Emeraldine base

EY:

Eosin Y

GV:

Gentian violet

HA-Am-PAA-B:

Humic acid-immobilized amine modified polyacrylamide/bentonite composite

TRGO/PVA:

Hydrothermally reduced graphene oxide/poly (vinyl alcohol)

hPEI-CE:

Hyperbranched polyethyleneimine functionalized cellulose

IC:

Indigo carmine

MNPs:

Magnetic nanoparticles

MS:

Mesoporous silica

MB:

Methylene blue

MG:

Methylene green

MO:

Methyl orange

NR:

Neutral red

OVS:

Octavinylsilsesquioxane

OR:

Oil red O

PAM:

Polyacrylamide

PVI:

Poly(1-vinyl imidazole)

PSSMA:

Poly(4-styrenesulfonic acid-co-maleic acid) sodium

PSSMA/M-rGO:

Poly(4-styrenesulfonic acid-co-maleic acid) sodium modified magnetic reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite

Mt:

Montmorillonite

Pal:

Palygorskite

poly(AN-co-ST):

Poly(acrylonitrile-co-styrene)

PAMAM:

Polyamidoamine

PANI:

Polyaniline

PANI -FP:

Polyaniline-coated filter papers

PANI–MS@Fe3O4:

Polyaniline functionalized magnetic mesoporous silica composite

PEI:

Polyethyleneimine

PmPD:

Poly(m-phenylenediamine)

PGA:

Poly(γ-glutamic acid)

PVA:

Poly (vinyl alcohol)

PV:

Proflavine

r-GO-PIL:

PVI polymer functionalized reduced graphene oxide

RB5:

Reactive black 5

RR228:

Reactive red 228

RB:

Rhodamine B

RB2:

Rose Bengal

TC:

Tetracycline

TPE:

Tetraphenylethylene

PAmABAmPD:

Terpolymer of aniline/m-aminobenzoic acid/m-phenylenediamine

TCAS:

Thiacalix[4]arene tetrasulfonate

β-CD:

β-cyclodextrin

20CMC-Bent:

20% of CMC in the total amount of CMC + Bent composite

RR2:

Reactive red 2

MDI:

4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate

TAT:

1,3,5-triacryloylhexahydro-1,3,5-triazine

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.21607064, No.21263005 and No.21567008), and Qingjiang youth Talent program of Jiangxi University of Science and Technology (No. JXUSTQJYX20170005).

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    Weiya Huang & Shuhong Wang

  2. School of Engineering and Information Technology, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia

    Dan Li

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Table 4 Molecular structure/weight, abbreviation, species and λmax of dyes in reports
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Huang, W., Wang, S., Li, D. (2019). Polymers and Polymer Composites for Adsorptive Removal of Dyes in Water Treatment. In: Inamuddin, Thomas, S., Kumar Mishra, R., Asiri, A. (eds) Sustainable Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05399-4_19

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