Insights into the single and binary adsorption of copper(II) and nickel(II) on hexagonal boron nitride : performance and mechanistic studies

• Main Authors: Oh, Wen-Da, Lee, Martin G.-H., Chanaka Udayanga, Withanage Don, Veksha, Andrei, Bao, Yueping, Giannis, Apostolos, Lim, Jun-Wei, Lisak, Grzegorz
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering; Heavy Metal Removal; Adsorption
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144164
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A series of hexagonal boron nitrides (h-BNs) was developed using a facile method involving pyrolysis of urea and boric acid mixture at different temperatures. The as-prepared h-BNs were characterized using XRD, FESEM, FTIR, BET and XPS and the results indicated that the as-prepared h-BNs consist of...