Laboratory Investigation of Antibiotic Interactions with Fe2O3 Nanoparticles in Water

Loofah activated carbon with hierarchical structures for high-efficiency adsorption of multi-level antibiotic pollutants

“…Among these technologies, adsorption exhibits distinctive advantages, such as easy operation process, low cost, high removal efficiency, and no toxicities generated from intermediates has been widely used for water treatment. [16,17] The adsorbent materials, such as natural ore materials, metal oxides (e.g., zeolites, [18] SiO2, [19] Al2O3, [20] Fe2O3, [21] H2Ti2O5•H2O nanobelts and magnetite nanocomposite, [22,23] and carbon nanomaterials have been studied for the adsorption of antibiotics. Note that the capacity of adsorption is closely linked with specific surface area of materials and structures, for instance, zeolite is a porous adsorbent, its adsorption capacity towards TC is found to be of 27.78 mg g -1 , [24] while modified mesoporous zeolite composites demonstrate a greater adsorption capacity of 186.09 mg g -1 due to its increased specific surface area.…”