Microstructure Engineered Nanoporous Copper for Enhanced Catalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Wastewater.

Taskeen Zahra, Saleem Abbas, Junfei Ou, Tuti Mariana Lim, Aumber Abbas

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Taskeen ZahraSchool of Materials Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou 213001, China.

Saleem AbbasSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, China.

Junfei OuSchool of Materials Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou 213001, China.

Tuti Mariana LimSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 226019, Singapore.

Aumber AbbasSchool of Materials Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou 213001, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8663-7824

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 52350410475

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Abstract

Advanced oxidation processes offer bright potential for eliminating organic pollutants from wastewater, where the development of efficient catalysts revolves around deep understanding of the microstructure-property-performance relationship. In this study, we explore how microstructural engineering influences the catalytic performance of nanoporous copper (NPC) in degrading organic contaminants. By systematically tailoring the NPC microstructure, we achieve tunable three-dimensional porous architectures with nanoscale pores and macroscopic grains. This results in a homogeneous, bicontinuous pore-ligament network that is crucial for the oxidative degradation of the model pollutant methylene blue in the presence of hydrogen peroxide. The catalytic efficiency is assessed using ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, which reveals first-order degradation kinetics with a rate constant

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catalytic degradationmethylene bluemicrostructurenanoporous copperorganic pollutants

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PMID40649419

DOI10.3390/ma18132929

PMCPMC12250797

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