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Adsorbents Based on Electrospun Nanofibers

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Electrospun Nanofibers for Energy and Environmental Applications

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In the past few decades, removing or controlling the concentration levels of the pollutants including toxic gases, heavy metal ions, and organic contaminants in environmental systems has attracted tremendous attention. Among the numerous approaches, adsorption is considered to be one of the most versatile and promising approach in removing pollutants due to its convenience, ease of operation, simplicity of design, and universal in use. Electrospun nanofibers have unique properties such as large surface area, tailored pore structure, high porosity, and flexibility of surface functionalization, therefore could be used as advanced adsorbents for contaminant removal. Importantly, nanofiber-based adsorbents are expected to possess strong adsorption capacity, fast kinetics, and good reproducibility due to the unique structure of nanofibers. In this chapter, we summarize recent progress in the development of electrospun nanofibrous membrane-based adsorbent for the removal of toxic gases and pollutants in aqueous solution (heavy metal ions and organic contaminants), describe the design of the nanofibrous materials, and discuss their adsorption performance in detail. This chapter might trigger further development and evolution of adsorption based on electrospun nanofibers as one potential to ease the environmental pollution problem.

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This work is supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, 2011CB606103 and 2012CB525005), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51173022, U1232116 and 51273038), the Shanghai Nano Special Projects (11 nm0502900), the Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology (No. 12JC1400101), the Huo Yingdong Foundation (131070), and the Program for New Century Talents of the University in China.

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    Xueqin Wang, Yang Si & Bin Ding

  2. Nanomaterials Research Center, Modern Textile Institute, Donghua University, Shanghai, 200051, China

    Jianlong Ge, Yang Si & Bin Ding

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Wang, X., Ge, J., Si, Y., Ding, B. (2014). Adsorbents Based on Electrospun Nanofibers. In: Ding, B., Yu, J. (eds) Electrospun Nanofibers for Energy and Environmental Applications. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54160-5_19

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