Adsorption Mechanism and Electrochemical Performance of Congo Red onto Magnetic CuFe2O4 Nanoparticles

Abstract

Magnetic CuFe2O4 nanoparticles were synthesized by the facile alcohol-solution combustion approach, and they were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). The magnetic CuFe2O4 nanoparticles were employed to adsorb Congo red (CR) from aqueous medium. The study of magnetic CuFe2O4 nanoparticles for CR adsorption at room temperature was performed, and the Langmuir isotherm and pseudo-second kinetics model matched well with the adsorption process, those suggested that the mechanism of CuFe2O4 nanoparticles for CR adsorption followed the adsorption behavior of monolayer. The adsorbance descended with the increase of pH value, especially the pH value exceeded 7, and the adsorbance amounted to 77% of the initial one via 10 recycles. While, the electrochemical performances of bare magnetic glassy carbon electrode (MGCE), MGCE/CuFe2O4 nanoparticles, and MGCE/nanoparticles adsorbed CR were measured by EIS and CV.