环境修复
磁性
纳米技术
超顺磁性
材料科学
地下水修复
环境科学
化学
污染
生态学
磁场
物理
磁化
量子力学
生物
作者
Yuange Chen,Long‐Ling Ouyang,Na Liu,Fang Li,Peiyi Li,Mengmeng Sun,Haiyang Qin,Yang Li,Xueping Xiang,Lidong Wu
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.128962
摘要
The global occurrence of plastic fragment pollutants in water resources has raised concerns about food safety, drinking water security, and long-term ecological impacts worldwide. The different chemical nature, the persistence, and the smaller size make micro-plastics accumulators for toxins that pose a potential threat to human health. Generally, the smaller the size of the plastic fragments is, the more difficult it is to remove them from the aquatic environment. Methods to remove plastics from water or other media are highly needed. Here, we develop core-shell superparamagnetic melanin nanoparticles, which can put magnetism on nano-/micro-plastics within 30 s and then rapidly remove them from water by applying an external magnetic field. The shell material (artificial nano-melanin) provides simultaneously attractive electrostatic, hydrophobic interaction, and van der Waals' forces to attract nano-/micro-plastics, which plays a key role in the rapid remediation of the plastic fragments. With this principle applied to a simple method, the average removal efficiency achieves 89.3%. We show a method for high-throughput remediation of various micro-plastics with simple materials and processes, which have the potential for rapid, green, and large-scale remediation in the future.
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