Upcycling biomass waste into Fe single atom catalysts for pollutant control

Xin Li; Kang Hu; Yizhe Huang; Qingqing Gu; Yuwen Chen; Bing Yang; Rongliang Qiu; Wenhao Luo; Bert M. Weckhuysen; Kai Yan

doi:10.1016/j.jechem.2022.01.044

Upcycling biomass waste into Fe single atom catalysts for pollutant control

Xin Li, Kang Hu, Yizhe Huang, Qingqing Gu, Yuwen Chen, Bing Yang, Rongliang Qiu, Wenhao Luo^*, Bert M. Weckhuysen, Kai Yan

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Abstract

Contaminants of heavy metals and antibiotics, which are frequently detected in water, soil and food chains with increasing prevalence in our current society, can cause potential harm to human health and disrupt human ecosystem irreversibly. Herein, we have successfully utilized biomass waste ferns contaminated by iron mines, to fabricate a first-of-its-kind high-performance class of Fe single-atom catalysts (FeSAC) by a facile pyrolysis. The optimal FeSAC-800 shows an excellent efficiency in the fast-photocatalytic degradation of six types of quinolone antibiotics (e.g., norfloxacin, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, lomefloxacin, flumequine) in 1 h under the simulated natural light irradiation. Based on advanced characterization, a well-defined structure of FeN₄, confined in the porous carbon is elaborated for the FeSAC-800. Mechanism of the photodegradation is via a Fenton-like oxidation process whereas the reactive oxygen species play a key role. These findings open a new avenue for efficient, sustainable utilization of biomass waste in pollutant control.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	282-291
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Energy Chemistry
Volume	69
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jechem.2022.01.044
Publication status	Published - Jun 2022

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This work is supported by the Key Realm Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (2020B0202080001), the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research (YSBR-022), the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2019B1515120058), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22078374), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB36030200), the National Key R&D Program of China (2020YFC1807600), the National Ten Thousand Talent Plan, Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (2019B110209003), and the Hundred Talent Plan (201602) from Sun Yat-sen University for financial support. The authors acknowledge the comments and discussion from Prof. Tao Zhang at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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This work is supported by the Key Realm Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (2020B0202080001), the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research (YSBR-022), the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2019B1515120058), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22078374), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB36030200), the National Key R&D Program of China (2020YFC1807600), the National Ten Thousand Talent Plan, Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (2019B110209003), and the Hundred Talent Plan (201602) from Sun Yat-sen University for financial support. The authors acknowledge the comments and discussion from Prof. Tao Zhang at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Funders	Funder number
Key Realm Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province	2020B0202080001
CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research	YSBR-022
Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation	2019B1515120058
National Natural Science Foundation of China	22078374
Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences	XDB36030200
National Key R&D Program of China	2020YFC1807600
National Ten Thousand Talent Plan
Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province	2019B110209003
Hundred Talent Plan from Sun Yatsen University	201602

Keywords

Biomass waste
Photocatalysis
Quinolone antibiotics
Single-atom catalysts
Sustainability

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Upcycling biomass waste into Fe single atom catalysts for pollutant control

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