Removal of trace heavy metal ions puts high demands on designing adsorbents with favorable surfaces.Crystal-plane engineering can provide controllable adsorption energy between surficial planes and adsorbents.Herein,we have creatively synthesized Mg-doped CaCO_(3)nanoarchitectures assembled by layered sheets(Mg-CaCO_(3)LSs)with high-index facets of(441)through a facile wet chemical process.Adsorption tests reveal that the layer-bylayer assembled sample exhibits a maximum Pb(II)adsorption capacity of 1961.9 mg·g^(-1),agreeing with the monolayer-adsorption Langmuir model.At an initial Pb(II)ion concentration of 20 mg·L^(-1),the adsorption can achieve a high removal rate near 99.0%within 1 min,and the adsorption kinetics follows a chemisorption pseudo-second-order model.Interestingly,the Mg-CaCO_(3)LSs show much-improved adsorption properties towards low-concentration Pb(II)ions,which could reduce the concentration from 1 mg·L^(-1)to~2.9μg·L^(-1)in 3 h(within 30 min decrease to less than 10μg·L^(-1),meeting drinking water standard from WHO).For comparison,the commercial CaCO_(3)and collected CaCO_(3)scale show much lower adsorption values with Pb(Ⅱ)ion residual concentration of~935.0 and~944.9μg·L^(-1)in 3 h,respectively.Xray diffraction(XRD),energy dispersive spectroscopy(EDS),and inductively coupled plasma(ICP)characterizations on the Mg-CaCO_(3)LSs before and after adsorbing Pb(Ⅱ)confirm that the high removal performance could be ascribed to fast metal ion exchange and excellent physical adsorption contributed by high-index planes.The density functional theory(DFT)calculations also confirm that the much-enhanced adsorption kinetics benefits from the optimal adsorption of the(441)planes.This work will provide a feasible route to design highefficient low-cost adsorbents through crystal-plane engineering.
Single-crystalline Li-doped Co3O4 truncated octahedra with different doping contents were synthesized by a simple combustion method with the fuel of multi-walled carbon nanotubes(MWCNTs).Controlled experiments showed that the pristine well-defined Co3O4 octahedra were obtained with exposed surfaces of {111} planes without lithium doping.In comparison with the octahedra,the truncated Co3O4 octahedra were composed of original {111} planes and extra {100} planes.It could be attributable to the selective adsorption of lithium ions on the {100} planes,making these planes with higher surface energy coexist with the crystal faces of {111}.Furthermore,the Li-doped truncated octahedra and undoped octahedra were used as catalysts in CO oxidation and as anode materials for Li-ion batteries(LIBs).The measurements exhibited that the Li-doped octahedra with added {100} crystal faces showed improved catalytic activity and electrochemical property because of the exposure of the higher energy faces of {100} and enhanced conductivity by Li doping.
