Recycling Plastic Waste for Environmental Remediation in Water Purification and CO2Capture

Xinxin Dong; Ammara Akram; Bibiana Comesaña-Gándara; Xinfei Dong; Qingchun Ge; Ke Wang; Shi Peng Sun; Baosheng Jin; Cher Hon Lau

doi:10.1021/acsapm.0c00224

Recycling Plastic Waste for Environmental Remediation in Water Purification and CO₂Capture

Xinxin Dong, Ammara Akram, Bibiana Comesaña-Gándara, Xinfei Dong, Qingchun Ge, Ke Wang, Shi Peng Sun, Baosheng Jin, Cher Hon Lau

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Abstract

The synthesis of hyper-cross-linked polymers (HCPs) is typically achieved using costly reagents. This study demonstrates the utilization of a plastic waste, Styrofoam, to create a series of HCPs through a one-pot Friedel-Crafts reaction. The influence of substrate, catalyst, and cross-linker ratio was investigated to yield HCPs with Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface areas up to 1199 m²/g. We exploited this recyclate HCP for carbon capture from flue gas, dye removal, and As(V) sequestration from water. The adsorption capabilities of this cost-effective adsorbent were comparable to and surpassed current state-of-the-art nanoporous materials such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), activated carbon, zeolites, and other HCPs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2586-2593
Number of pages	8
Journal	ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Volume	2
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.0c00224
State	Published - 10 Jul 2020

Keywords

arsenic uptake
carbon capture
dye removal
environmental remediation
hyper-cross-linked polymer

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Recycling Plastic Waste for Environmental Remediation in Water Purification and CO₂Capture

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