Dissolved oxygen in aeration-driven piezo-catalytic for antibiotics pollutants removal in water

The misuse of antibiotics and oxygen-lacking in aquaculture causes serious water environmental problems.Herein,a piezoelectic odd-layered MoS_(2)is prepared and applied to piezo-catalytic remove tinidazole(TNZ)and other antibiotic pollutants with aeration as a piezo-driving force.About 89.6%of TNZ can be degraded by MoS_(2)under aeration in the presence of dissolved oxygen with a reaction rate constant of0.15 min^(-1),which is 2.4 times higher than that under N2atmosphere and quiescence conditions.Quenching experiments and electron paramagnetic resonance(EPR)tests identify that singlet oxygen(^(1)O_(2))and superoxide radical(O_(2)^(·-))are dominant reactive oxygen species in MoS_(2)/aeration system.These results demonstrate that MoS2can trigger a piezoelectric effect and produce charge carriers to generate reactive oxygen species with dissolved oxygen(DO)for contaminant degradation with the turbulence and water bubbles rupture driven by aeration.

Multi-function adsorbent-photocatalyst MXene-TiO_(2) composites for removal of enrofloxacin antibiotic from water

MXenes,a new family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides or nitrides,have attracted tremendous attention for various applications due to their unique properties such as good electrical conductivity,hydrophilicity,and ion intercalability.In this work,Ti_(3)C_(2) MXene,or MX,is converted to MX-TiO_(2) composites using a simple and rapid microwave hydrothermal treatment in HCl/NaCl mixture solution that induces formation of fine TiO_(2) particles on the MX parent structure and imparts photocatalytic activity to the resulting MX-TiO_(2) composites.The composites were used for enrofloxacin(ENR),a frequently found contaminating antibiotic,removal from water.The relative amount of the MX and TiO_(2) can be controlled by controlling the hydrothermal temperature resulting in composites with tunable adsorption/photocatalytic properties.NaCl addition was found to play important role as composites synthesized without NaCl could not adsorb enrofloxacin well.Adding NaCl into the hydrothermal treatment causes sodium ions to be simultaneously intercalated into the composite structure,improving ENR adsorption greatly from 1 to 6 mg ENR/g composite.It also slows down the MX to TiO2 conversion leading to a smaller and more uniform distribution of TiO_(2) particles on the structure.MX-TiO_(2)/NaCl composites,which have sodium intercalated in their structures,showed both higher ENR adsorption and photocatalytic activity than composites without NaCl despite the latter having higher TiO2 content.Adsorbed ENR on the composites can be efficiently degraded by free radicals generated from the photoexcited TiO2 particles,leading to high photocatalytic degradation efficiency.This demonstrates the synergetic effect between adsorption and photocatalytic degradation of the synthesized compounds.