Sustainable and Economical Approach for Effective Adsorption of Antibiotics and Heavy Metal Ions using Neolamarckia cadamba-mediated MgO-rGO Nanocomposites
Ajay K Potbhare, Rohit S. Madankar, Shubham S. Tripathy, Aniruddha Mondal, Aniket Kahate, Pavan Bhilkar, Małgorzata Norek, Martin Federico Desimone, Ratiram Gomaji Chaudhary
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Abstract
This study investigates the adsorption behavior of antibiotics on graphene-based nanocomposites (NCs) and their transport in aqueous systems. MgO-rGO NCs were synthesized using a green route involving Neolamarckia cadamba fruit extract, which served as a reducing agent for both magnesium salts and graphene oxide. The resulting NCs were authenticated by XRD, FTIR, Raman, EDS, BET, SEM, and TEM. Adsorption performance was evaluated under variable parameters, including pH, contact period, temperature, dosage, and initial antibiotic concentration. The MgO-rGO NCs demonstrated high removal efficiencies for amoxicillin (95.51%), cephalexin (90.19%), and penicillin (97.89%), even at low adsorbent dosages (0.020 g/L). Similarly, the efficient adsorption was observed for the of Cu2+(96.51%), Pb2+(96.86 %), and Bi3+(98.22 %). Adsorption kinetics followed the pseudo-second order model, while equilibrium data conformed to both Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms. The NCs exhibited excellent reusability and a high surface area, highlighting their potential as sustainable materials for the removal of antibiotics contaminants from wastewater.
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