Abstract
Hierarchical porous zinc oxide (ZnO)/nickel(II) oxide (NiO) hollow microspheres were fabricated by a facile hydrothermal approach and subsequent calcination process. The synthesized samples were used as adsorbent for removing Congo red (CR), a commercial azo dye. The synthesized hierarchical porous ZnO/NiO composites exhibit a superior adsorption capacity for CR (518 mg/g), compared with pure NiO (397 mg/g) and ZnO (304 mg/g). The high CR adsorption capacity of ZnO/NiO composites was associated with its hierarchical porous hollow structures and large specific surface area (130 m2/g), which provide a large quantity of active sites for CR molecules. The adsorption kinetics data were perfectly fitted to a pseudo-second-order model. The isotherms were accurately described by the Langmuir model. The results suggest that the as-prepared hierarchical porous ZnO/NiO composites are a highly efficient adsorbent for treating organic dye-impacted wastewater.
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