Low-cost carbon nanospheres for efficient removal of organic dyes from aqueous solutions

• Main Authors: Song, Xianghua, Wang, Yabo, Wang, Kean, Xu, Rong
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100987; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16708
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Colloidal carbon nanospheres (CNS) with rich surface functional groups of −OH and −COO– were prepared from glucose solution via hydrothermal reaction and activated by NaOH solution. The nonporous CNS exhibited excellent adsorption performance toward basic dyes. High maximum adsorption capacities wer...