INQUISUR   21779
INSTITUTO DE QUIMICA DEL SUR
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Biotemplated synthesis of mesoporous silica for doxycycline removal. Effect of pH, temperature, ionic strength and Ca2+ concentration on the adsorption behaviour
Autor/es:
MARCELO AVENA; MAXIMILIANO BRIGANTE
Revista:
MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2016 vol. 225 p. 534 - 542
ISSN:
1387-1811
Resumen:
Mesoporous silica (SiO2) materials were synthesized in acidic media, using tetraethyl orthosilicate as silica precursor and the water-soluble biopolymer hydroethyl starch (HES) as template, in order to evaluate the effect of temperature synthesis on the morphology and pore structure of synthesizedmaterials. The results show that the mentioned parameters can be tuned by changing the temperature, i.e., from slices with worm-like mesopores of around 5 nm to microporous lamellas when the temperature synthesis increases from 60C to 100C, respectively. The changes are attributed to a (partial)degradation of the template that hinders the gel formation and disturbs its interaction with the silica species through H-bonds formations and/or electrostatic interactions. The synthesized solids were evaluated as adsorbent of the antibiotic doxycycline (DC) at several values of pH, temperature, ionicstrength and Ca concentration. The adsorption of DC strongly increases as pH and ionic strength decrease due to electrostatic attractions and H-bond formations between the functional groups of the antibiotic and the silica active sites. The presence of calcium ions strongly increases the adsorption of DC at pH > 4.4 due to the formation of ternary DCeCa 2þeSiO2 complexes by calcium-bridging. However, Ca concentrations higher than 10-3M cause the DC precipitation at pH 7 or higher. The analysis of thermodynamic parameters suggests that the adsorption of DC on SiO2 is exothermic and spontaneous in nature. The effect of the tetracycline structure on the adsorption capacity of the synthesized material was also evaluated and discussed.