Key Laboratory of Ecology and Environment in Minority Areas (Minzu University of China), National Ethnic Affairs Commission, Beijing 100081, China; College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China.
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China.
Chemosphere. 2024 Sep;364:143022. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.143022. Epub 2024 Aug 3.
In the Electro-Fenton (EF) process, hydrogen peroxide (HO) is produced in situ by a two-electron oxygen reduction reaction (2e ORR), which is further activated by electrocatalysts to generate reactive oxygen specieces (ROS). However, the selectivity of 2e transfer from catalysts to O is still unsatisfactory, resulting in the insufficient HO availability. Carbon based materials with abundant oxygen-containing functional groups have been used as excellent 2e ORR electrocatalysts, and atomic hydrogen (H*) can quickly transfer one electron to HO in a wide pH range and avoiding the restrict of traditional Fenton reaction. Herein, nickel nanoparticles growth on oxidized carbon deposited on modified carbon felt (Ni/C@CF) was prepared as a bifunctional catalytic electrode coupling 2e ORR to form HO with H* reducing HO to produce ROS for highly efficient degradation of antibiotics. Electrochemical oxidation and thermal treatment were used to modulate the structure of carbon substrates for increasing the electro-generation of HO, while H* was produced over Ni sites through HO/H reduction constructing an in-situ EF system. The experimental results indicated that 2e ORR and H* induced EF processes could promote each other mutually. The optimized Ni/C@CF with a Ni:C mass ratio of 1:9 exhibited a high 2e selectivity and HO yield of 49 mg L. As a result, the designed Ni/C@CF exhibited excellent electrocatalytic ability to degrade tetracycline (TC) under different aqueous environmental conditions, and achieved 98.5% TC removal efficiency within 60 min HO and H* were generated simultaneously at the bifunctional cathode and react to form strong oxidizing free radicals •OH. At the same time, O gained an electron to form •O, which could react with •OH and HO to form O, which had relatively long life (10∼10 s), further promoting the efficient removal of antibiotics in water.
在电芬顿(EF)过程中,过氧化氢(HO)通过两电子氧还原反应(2e ORR)原位产生,该反应进一步通过电催化剂激活以产生活性氧物质(ROS)。然而,催化剂到 O 的 2e 转移的选择性仍然不理想,导致 HO 的可用性不足。具有丰富含氧官能团的碳基材料已被用作出色的 2e ORR 电催化剂,原子氢(H*)可以在宽 pH 范围内快速将一个电子转移到 HO,从而避免了传统芬顿反应的限制。在此,将氧化碳沉积在改性碳纤维毡上的镍纳米颗粒(Ni/C@CF)生长制备为耦合 2e ORR 以形成 HO 并与 H还原 HO 以产生 ROS 用于高效降解抗生素的双功能催化电极。电化学氧化和热处理用于调节碳基底的结构以增加 HO 的电生成,同时通过 HO/H 还原在 Ni 位点上产生 H构建原位 EF 系统。实验结果表明,2e ORR 和 H诱导的 EF 过程可以相互促进。优化的 Ni/C@CF 具有 1:9 的 Ni:C 质量比,表现出高的 2e 选择性和 49mg/L 的 HO 产率。结果,所设计的 Ni/C@CF 在不同水相环境条件下对四环素(TC)表现出出色的电催化降解能力,在 60min 内实现了 98.5%的 TC 去除效率HO 和 H同时在双功能阴极上生成并反应形成强氧化自由基•OH。同时,O 获得一个电子形成•O,它可以与•OH 和 HO 反应形成 O,O 具有相对较长的寿命(10∼10s),进一步促进水中抗生素的有效去除。