湿热环境对PMMA混杂纳米复合材料性能的影响

目的研究湿热环境对聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯(PMMA)混杂纳米复合材料性能的影响。方法利用制备的水包油型杂化乳液稳定剂EMI/GO/CNTs稳定以甲基丙烯酸甲酯(MMA)为油相的水包油型Pickering乳液,用偶氮二异丁氰(AIBN)为引发剂,引发Pickering乳液进行悬浮聚合,聚合产物为PMMA混杂纳米复合材料。将PMMA混杂纳米复合材料模压成型,分别在室温及50℃下进行水浸吸湿实验。采用光学显微镜对Pickering乳液液滴形貌进行分析,通过复合材料的质量变化、动态力学分析测试、导电性测试,对复合材料的吸湿率、玻璃化转变温度及导电性变化进行分析。结果用EMI/GO/CNTs稳定的以MMA为油相的水包油型Pickering乳液具有良好的稳定性,乳液液滴的尺寸分布范围较窄,分布较均匀。复合材料的吸水量随时间增加逐渐增大,达到吸湿平衡状态后,吸湿率基本不变。不同温度下水浸复合材料的吸湿速度和平衡吸湿率不同,50℃水浸比25℃水浸的复合材料的吸湿速度快且平衡吸湿率大。湿热后复合材料的玻璃化转变温度基本不变。复合材料经湿热环境处理后电导率升高1~2个数量级。结论利用制备的杂化乳液稳定剂制备出Pickering乳液并进行悬浮聚合、模压成型,制备出PMMA复合材料。经水浸湿热处理后的复合材料,其吸湿率和电导率均有一定变化,玻璃化转变温度基本不变。     

Au/Fe3O4/GO复合SERS基底的制备及对水溶液中低浓度芘的富集-检测

以氧化石墨烯(GO)为载体,利用静电吸附将氨基修饰的Fe_3O_4磁性纳米颗粒负载到GO表面得到GO-Fe_3O_4复合材料,再通过静电作用将Au纳米颗粒与GO-Fe_3O_4复合材料组装,制备了Au/Fe_3O_4/GO复合材料,并考察其表面增强拉曼(SERS)活性.首先以罗丹明B(Rh B)为探针分子,考察Au纳米颗粒的粒径对SERS性能的影响,发现平均粒径为40 nm的Au纳米颗粒具有最好的SERS效果.SERS检测性能随着Au负载量的提高而逐渐变优,Au/GO中Au负载量为20%时最优.以多环芳烃分子芘为探针分子,探究Au/Fe_3O_4/GO复合材料中各组分对SERS性能的影响发现,Au纳米颗粒对拉曼信号的增强起主要作用,GO可以通过化学增强效应及对芘的吸附富集作用有效提高SERS检出限,Fe_3O_4的存在可以使基底快速分离,简化实验步骤,便于基底重复利用.该方法对水溶液中芘的检出限达到10-8mol·L-1,相对于普通拉曼的检出限有了明显的降低,有望被用于环境中痕量多环芳烃的富集-检测.     

氧化石墨烯遗传毒性的实验研究

研究氧化石墨烯(GO)的遗传毒性,考察其致突变作用,为GO在生物领域的安全应用提供依据。采用Ames试验、体外CHL细胞染色体畸变试验和小鼠体内染色体畸变试验,分别在细菌水平、细胞水平及整体动物水平研究GO的遗传毒性。GO各剂量组的Ames试验结果为阴性。CHL试验中,CHL细胞染色体畸变率随GO浓度的增加而升高,其中1.000 mg·mL~(-1)剂量组(+S_9)和0.500 mg·mL~(-1)剂量组(-S_9)畸变率显著升高(P 0.05)。小鼠骨髓细胞染色体畸变试验中,骨髓细胞染色体畸变率同样随GO浓度的增加而升高,1.000和0.500 mg·kg~(-1)剂量组的畸变率显著提高(P 0.05)。虽然Ames试验结果没有反映出GO的遗传毒性,但在体外及体内染色体畸变试验中,GO均表现出对哺乳动物细胞染色体有潜在的遗传毒性。     

G-CNTs/PVDF mixed matrix membranes with improved antifouling properties and filtration performance

A novel nanocomposite OMWCNT-A-GO was synthesized by conjugating OMWCNT and GO. The P-OMWCNT-A-GO membrane was fabricated by non-solvent induced phase inversion. The P-OMWCNT-A-GO exhibits the best water flux, BSA rejection and flux recovery. It should be due to the enhanced membrane pore size, porosity and hydrophilicity. Although carbon nanomaterials have been widely used as effective nanofillers for fabrication of mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) with outstanding performances, the reproducibility of the fabricated MMMs is still hindered by the non-homogenous dispersion of these carbon nanofillers in membrane substrate. Herein, we report an effective way to improve the compatibility of carbon-based nanomaterials with membrane matrixes. By chemically conjugating the oxidized CNTs (o-CNTs) and GO using hexanediamine as cross-linker, a novel carbon nanohybrid material (G-CNTs) was synthesized, which inherited both the advanced properties of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene oxide (GO). The G-CNTs incorporated polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) MMMs (G-CNTs/PVDF) were fabricated via a non-solvent induced phase separation (NIPS) method. The filtration and antifouling performances of G-CNTs/PVDF were evaluated using distillate water and a 1 g/L bovine serum albumin (BSA) aqueous solution under 0.10 MPa. Compared to the MMMs prepared with o-CNTs, GO, the physical mixture of o-CNTs and GO and pure PVDF membrane, the G-CNTs/PVDF membrane exhibited the highest water flux up to 220 L/m²/h and a flux recovery ratio as high as 90%, as well as the best BSA rejection rate. The excellent performances should be attributed to the increased membrane pore size, porosity and hydrophilicity of the resulted membrane. The successful synthesis of the novel nanohybrid G-CNTs provides a new type of nanofillers for MMMs fabrication.     

氨基化碳纳米管/石墨烯气凝胶对甲醛吸附研究

针对目前室内空气污染物甲醛超标的现象,将新型碳纳米材料(石墨烯、碳纳米管)引入到气体污染物去除领域.利用石墨烯水溶液在一定条件下形成凝胶的特性,采用海绵作为骨架,构造石墨烯/碳纳米管/海绵三维气凝胶结构,并进一步采用氨基修饰提高该氨基化碳纳米管/石墨烯气凝胶(GCNTs/EDA-S)对室内空气污染物甲醛的吸附性能,研究石墨烯与碳纳米管(CNTs)对气态甲醛吸附作用机理.样品吸附实验结果对比分析表明,石墨烯和碳纳米管氨基官能团修饰后对气态甲醛均有良好的吸附性能,其中GCNTs/EDA-S在甲醛浓度为3.7ppm时,吸附实验的穿透时间可达到4024min/g,最大吸附容量为13.5mg/g.     

Interaction of carbonaceous nanomaterials with wastewater biomass

Increasing production and use of carbonaceous nanomaterials (NMs) will increase their release to the sewer system and to municipal wastewater treatment plants. There is little quantitative knowledge on the removal of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), graphene oxide (GO), or few-layer graphene (FLG) from wastewater into the wastewater biomass. As such, we investigated the quantification of GO and MWCNTs by UV-Vis spectrophotometry, and FLG using programmable thermal analysis (PTA), respectively. We further explored the removal of pristine and oxidized MWCNTs (O-MWCNTs), GO, and FLG in a biomass suspension. At least 96% of pristine and O-MWCNTs were removed from the water phase through aggregation and 30-min settling in presence or absence of biomass with an initial MWCNT concentration of 25 mg·L⁻¹. Only 65% of GO was removed with biomass concentration at or above 1,000 mg·L⁻¹ as total suspended solids (TSS) with the initial GO concentration of 25 mg·L⁻¹. As UV-Vis spectrophotometry does not work well on quantification of FLG, we studied the removal of FLG at a lower biomass concentration (50 mg TSS·L⁻¹) using PTA, which showed a 16% removal of FLG with an initial concentration of 1 mg·L⁻¹. The removal data for GO and FLG were fitted using the Freundlich equation (R² = 0.55, 0.94, respectively). The data presented in this study for carbonaceous NM removal from wastewater provides quantitative information for environmental exposure modeling and life cycle assessment.     

氨基修饰磁性氧化石墨烯吸附离子型染料性能

采用恒温搅拌法和水热法首次制备磁性三乙烯四胺氧化石墨烯（M-T-GO）,并通过SEM和XPS对M-T-GO进行表征.以M-T-GO为吸附剂,分析pH值、吸附时间和初始浓度对阴离子染料酒石黄（TY）和阳离子染料亚甲基蓝（MB）吸附效果的影响.并对吸附动力学和吸附等温线进行拟合.结果表明：M-T-GO对离子型染料的吸附过程符合Langmuir吸附等温式和拟二级反应动力学描述.M-T-GO对TY和MB具有较好的吸附性能,饱和吸附量分别为157.23mg/g和169.49mg/g.与GO相比,M-T-GO对离子型染料的吸附效果更优异,同时具有快速分离和易再生的优点.     

Electrocatalytic debromination of BDE-47 at palladized graphene electrode

Graphene electrodes （Ti/Gr） were prepared by depositing Gr sheets on Ti substrate, followed by an annealing process for enhancing the adhesion strength. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopies and X-ray dif- fraction patterns displayed that the electrochemical behavior of Ti/Gr electrodes can be improved due to the generation of TiO2 layer at Ti-Gr interface during the annealing process. The palladized Gr electrodes （Ti/Gr/Pd） were prepared by electrochemical depositing Pd nanoparticles on Gr sheets. The debromination ability of Ti/Gr/Pd electrodes was investigated using BDE-47 as a target pollutant with various bias potentials. The results indicated that the BDE-47 degradation rates on Ti/Gr/Pd electrodes increased with the negative bias potentials from 0V to -0.5 V （vs. SCE）. Almost all of the BDE-47 was removed in the debromination reaction on the Ti/Gr/Pd electrode at - 0.5 V for 3 h, and the main product was diphenyl ethers, meaning it is promising to debrominate completely using the Ti/Gr/Pd electrode. Although the debromination rate was slightly slower at -0.3 V than that under -0.5 V, the current efficiency at -0.3 V was higher, because the electrical current acted mostly on BDE-47 rather than on water.     

Ammonia adsorption on graphene and graphene oxide: a first-principles study

Motivated by the recent realization of graphene sensor to detect gas molecules that are harmful to the environment, the ammonia adsorption on graphene or graphene oxide (GO) was investigated using first-principles calculation. The optimal adsorption and orientation of the NH₃ molecules on the graphene surfaces were determined, and the adsorption energies (E _b) as well as the Mulliken charge transfers of NH₃ were calculated. The E _b for the graphene are small and seem to be independent of the sites and orientations. The surface epoxy or hydroxyl groups can promote the adsorption of NH₃ on the GO; the enhancement of the E _b for the hydroxyl groups is greater than that for the epoxy groups on the surface. The charge transfers from the molecule to the surfaces also exhibit the same trend. The Brönsted acid sites and Lewis acid sites could stably exist on the GO with surface hydroxyl groups and on the basal, respectively.