Abstract

The urea hydrolysis method was applied to prepare Mg-Al-La layered double hydroxides (LDH) and its hybrids with different amounts of magnetic MnFe2O4 nanoparticles. The new hybrid materials were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction, FTIR and Raman spectroscopy, AFM, SEM, TEM/EDX microscopic methods, BET specific surface area determination and inductively coupled plasma (ICP). The AFM and TEM/EDX analyses clearly showed MnFe2O4 nanoparticles to be predominantly localized on the surface of LDH sheets. Almost two-fold increase of the specific surface area was observed for the Mg-Al-La LDH-MnFe2O4 hybrids compared to the pristine LDH. All synthesized hybrids were studied for their adsorption capacities of Acid orange 7 dye. The adsorption studies were measured at pH 4.0, 7.0 and 10.0. The resulting data were fitted by Langmuir and Langmuir-Freundlich models. The Langmuir isotherm model exhibited a maximum adsorption capacity of Acid orange 7 dye (687.9 mg/g) for Mg-Al-La LDH-MnFe2O4 hybrid material. The lower pH positively affected higher adsorption capacity of Acid orange 7 dye. The prepared Mg-Al-La LDH-MnFe2O4 hybrid materials thus showed to be new promising adsorbents of anionic dyes.

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