Khalatbary Mansooreh, Sayadi Mohammad Hossein, Hajiani Mahmood, Nowrouzi Mohsen, Homaeigohar Shahin
Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Birjand, Birjand P.O. Box 97175/615, Iran.
Department of Science and Biotechnology, Faculty of Nano and Bio Science and Technology, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr 75169-13798, Iran.
Nanomaterials (Basel). 2022 Aug 15;12(16):2798. doi: 10.3390/nano12162798.
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) decorated with Ag nanoparticles (NPs) are bifunctional adsorbent nanomaterials with antibacterial activity. They can be magnetically recovered from wastewater in case of coupling with γ-FeO. In this study, for the first time, an environmentally friendly technique was applied to prepare a nanocomposite (NC) material composed of γ-FeO/MWCNT/Ag by using Bridgestone disposable tires and leaves extract. γ-FeO/MWCNTs/Ag NC was employed for the removal of sulfamethazine (SMT) from aqueous solutions. Under the optimized conditions determined via the Taguchi method, the highest SMT adsorption capacity of the γ-FeO/MWCNT/Ag NC was measured to be 47.6 mg/g. The experimental data fitted well with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and the Langmuir isotherm. The thermodynamic parameters implied that the adsorption process was endothermic. In addition to adsorption of the drug pollutant, the NC demonstrated a superior antibacterial activity against Gram-positive bacteria. The reusability test also showed that over 79% SMT can be removed using γ-FeO/MWCNTs/Ag NC even after four adsorption cycles. Taken together, γ-FeO/MWCNTs/Ag NC was proven to be a promising antibacterial nano-adsorbent for wastewater treatment.
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