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Title of Article Removal of Hg(II) from Aqueous Solution using Graphene Oxide as a Highly Potential Adsorbent 
Date of Acceptance 24 December 2014 
Journal
     Title of Journal Asian Journal of Chemistry  
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     Institute of Journal Chemical Publishing Co. 
     ISBN/ISSN ISSN 0970-7077 
     Volume 26 
     Issue
     Month December
     Year of Publication 2014 
     Page 85-88 
     Abstract Mercury and its compounds are neurotoxins, which simply cause any blockage of enzyme sites and interfere in related protein synthesis, and generally found as much toxic metal contaminants in wastewater and environment. Removal of such metal ions by various adsorbents including chitosan, resins, ash, silica gel and activated carbon was reported. Presently, graphene oxide (GO) is one of highly potential adsorbents used in numerous applications. Its main advantage is consisted of three main functional groups (carbonyl, hydroxyl and epoxide) on their surface giving anchored sites for metal ions complexation, namely for adsorption capabilities of Pb(II), Zn(II), Cu(II), Cd(II) and Co(II). The present study was thus subject to the adsorption of Hg(II) with GO compared with bare graphite (BGP). For an optimization study, the effects of pH solution (2-9), incubation time (10-240 min), and an initial concentration of Hg(II) (0.1-60 mg/L) were investigated. Mercury (II) ion was analyzed by FI-HGAAS. From the results, the adsorption capacity for Hg(II) removal from aqueous solution was 50.51 mg/g at pH 4.4 and their adsorption state was completed within 80 min. While BGP gave the adsorption capacity of 22.94 mg Hg(II)/g at pH 6.5 within 100 min. The adsorption isotherms of Hg(II) fit well with the Langmuir and Freundlich models for GO and BGP, respectively. It is demonstrated that GO can also be a highly potential adsorbent for toxic metals.  
     Keyword Graphene oxide; Mercury(II); Adsorption capacity, FI-HGAAS 
Author
567020008-2 Mr. PRAWIT NUENGMATCHA [Main Author]
Science Doctoral Degree

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