Abstract
The present work aims the synthesis of a novel, low cost, and environmentally friendly PANI/PVA-CuNi composite by chemical oxidative polymerization of aniline monomer and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as film matrix; several percentages of copper (Cu) and Nickel (Ni) were used. UV–Visible spectroscopy, FTIR, SEM-EDX, and TGA were used to characterize the nanocomposites. While PANI/PVA-CuNi nanocomposites were investigated in adsorption experiments of methylene blue (MB) under different controlled conditions (time reaction, adsorbent dosage, initial dye concentration, stirring speed, temperature, and pH of the medium) also various kinetic models were employed to evaluate the efficiency of the adsorption. The results revealed that the10 mg of PANI/PVA-Cu50Ni50 and PANI/PVA-Ni composites Catalyst removed (94% and 93% of methylene blue in 180 min respectively at 10−5 M initial concentration of dye, pH of 13, stirring speed of 150 rpm, the temperature of 301 k. the kinetics data were properly fitted with the pseudo second-order model with a correlation coefficient of 0.98262 and 0.95881 using PANI/PVA-Cu50Ni50 and PANI/PVA-Ni, respectively.
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