Abstract
Two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum disulfide might be highly capable of lead removal from wastewater due to the huge sulfur-rich surface area. An attempt was made to explore the feasibility of using 2D molybdenum disulfide as a super adsorbent in water in this work. Adsorption isotherm and kinetics and SEM-EDS were conducted to investigate Pb(II) adsorption capacity at the interface of 2D molybdenum disulfide/water, and XPS was used to study the adsorption mechanism. The results indicated that 2D molybdenum disulfide had a dramatic efficiency for Pb(II) removal from water with a 1479mg/g adsorption capacity. The adsorption followed the Freundlich isotherm model and fitted well with both the pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order kinetics models. The adsorption might be attributed to the chemical adsorption due to the complexation of Pb(II) with intrinsic S or O atoms exposed on 2D molybdenum disulfide surfaces, together with electrostatic adsorption.
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