Insight into the Role of Defect CN Layer in Enhanced Catalysis of Peroxymonosulfate on Magnetic Cobalt Carbocatalyst for Phenol Degradation

IF 2.3 4区化学 Q3 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Catalysis Letters Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI:10.1007/s10562-025-04986-x

Haoyi Xu, Wen Huang, Lu Yang, Yifan Ji, Wei Xiong, Derong R. Liu

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Phenolic wastewaters possess high toxicity and poor biodegradation and persist in ecosystem for longer periods, causing severe harm to living organisms. Thus, developing highly effective catalysis-oxidation system for phenolic wastewater treatment is highly needed. In this work, a high-performance magnetic cobalt carbocatalyst (M-Co/CN) was prepared via thermal pyrolysis of the amorphous cobalt-aspartic acid complex. It was further applied for activation of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) to degrade phenolic wastewaters. Related characterization results revealed that the compositions, structures, properties of the catalyst mainly depended on pyrolysis temperature. The formed porous CN layer at 600 ℃ could enhance adsorption and catalysis through improving mass transfer, restricting Co aggregation, and exposing more active sites. Therefore, the catalyst we prepared could show high catalytic performance in process of phenol wastewater treatment. Besides, reaction conditions (catalyst dosage, PMS dosage, phenol concentration, pH, and anion type, etc.) were further studied and optimized. Under the optimized conditions, a degradation efficiency of 95.0% was achieved for 100 ppm phenol within 1 h. Furthermore, radical quenching experiments and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy jointly displayed that phenol degradation mechanism in the M-Co/CN-600-PMS system primarily involves the generation of singlet oxygen (¹O₂) with Co⁰ serving as active reaction sites. Besides, recycling experiment also demonstrated that M-Co/CN catalyst had high structure stability and better reusability after tests.

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Catalysis Letters 化学-物理化学

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期刊介绍： Catalysis Letters aim is the rapid publication of outstanding and high-impact original research articles in catalysis. The scope of the journal covers a broad range of topics in all fields of both applied and theoretical catalysis, including heterogeneous, homogeneous and biocatalysis. The high-quality original research articles published in Catalysis Letters are subject to rigorous peer review. Accepted papers are published online first and subsequently in print issues. All contributions must include a graphical abstract. Manuscripts should be written in English and the responsibility lies with the authors to ensure that they are grammatically and linguistically correct. Authors for whom English is not the working language are encouraged to consider using a professional language-editing service before submitting their manuscripts.