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ArticleRSC advances2021

The new life of traditional water treatment flocculant polyaluminum chloride (PAC): a green and efficient micro-nano reactor catalyst in alcohol solvents.

Gang Wang, Pengcheng Hao, Yanping Liang, Yuwang Liang, Wanyi Liu, Jiantong Wen, Xiang Li, Haijuan Zhan, Shuxian Bi

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Article in RSC advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gang WangState Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Chemistry Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 P. R. China liuwy@nxu.edu.cn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6705-4121
Pengcheng HaoState Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Chemistry Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 P. R. China liuwy@nxu.edu.cn.
Yanping LiangState Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Chemistry Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 P. R. China liuwy@nxu.edu.cn.
Yuwang LiangState Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Chemistry Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 P. R. China liuwy@nxu.edu.cn.
Wanyi LiuState Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Chemistry Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 P. R. China liuwy@nxu.edu.cn.
Jiantong WenState Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Chemistry Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 P. R. China liuwy@nxu.edu.cn.
Xiang LiState Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Chemistry Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 P. R. China liuwy@nxu.edu.cn.
Haijuan ZhanState Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Chemistry Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 P. R. China liuwy@nxu.edu.cn.
Shuxian BiState Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Chemistry Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 P. R. China liuwy@nxu.edu.cn.
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Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyaluminum chloride (PAC) is an inorganic polymer material that has the advantages of a simple preparation process and special electronic structure. It is considered to be the most efficient and widely used flocculation material for water treatment. In this work, PAC has been used as a Lewis acid catalyst in interdisciplinary fields because of its polynuclear Al-O cation structure. Further, its catalytic mechanism in green organic synthesis has been studied in detail by using the multicomponent Biginelli reaction as the probe. The effect of solvent on the self-assembly and aggregation process of PAC materials was investigated using optical microscopy, UV-Vis spectrophotometry, particle size analysis, XPS, IR, SEM and HR-TEM. The results show that the PAC materials have different morphological characteristics in different solvents. The Al-O-Al cations were transformed in the ethanol solvent to form new multi-nuclear cation aggregates Al

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