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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Purification of Aqueous Media by Biochars: Feedstock Type Effect on Silver Nanoparticles Removal.

Agnieszka Tomczyk, Katarzyna Szewczuk-Karpisz, Zofia Sokołowska, Milena Kercheva, Emil Dimitrov

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Agnieszka TomczykInstitute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doświadczalna 4, 20-290 Lublin, Poland.
Katarzyna Szewczuk-KarpiszInstitute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doświadczalna 4, 20-290 Lublin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-8682-3491
Zofia SokołowskaInstitute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doświadczalna 4, 20-290 Lublin, Poland.
Milena KerchevaInstitute of Soil Science, Agrotechnology and Plant Protection "N. Poushkarov", Shosse Bankya 7, Sofia 1080, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000-0001-9053-5372
Emil DimitrovInstitute of Soil Science, Agrotechnology and Plant Protection "N. Poushkarov", Shosse Bankya 7, Sofia 1080, Bulgaria.
Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences · PLInstitute of Soil Science “Nikola Poushkarov” · BG

Funding

Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju BIOSTRATEG3/345940/7/NCBR/2017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to the harmful effects of nanoparticles in the environment, their effective removal from aqueous media is of great importance. This paper described the research on the silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) sorption on biochars obtained from different feedstock types. The sorbents were produced through pyrolysis (double-barrel method) of the vineyard (BV), paulownia tree (BP), and tobacco (BT). BV exhibited the highest specific surface area, porosity, value of variable surface charge, and content of surface acidic functional groups among the used biochars. The pseudo-second order model best described the obtained adsorption kinetics, whereas the Freundlich model accounted for the registered adsorption data. The Ag-NPs removal was highly efficient in the case of BV, especially in the nanoparticle concentration range 50-500 mg/L. Thus, this biochar can be considered as an ecofriendly, effective, low-cost organic adsorbent, potentially used in the aqueous media purification.

Indexed as

PyrolysisAdsorptionCharcoalFarmsKineticsMagnoliopsidaMetal NanoparticlesNicotianaPorositySilverTreesVitisWater Pollutants, ChemicalWater PurificationbiocharCharcoalSilverWater Pollutants, Chemicalaqueous purification mediabiocharmetal nanoparticles

Identifiers

PMID32630537
PMCPMC7355759
OpenAlexW3037467705

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