Carbon Nanostructures

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Carbon Nanomaterials as Adsorbents for Environmental and Biological Applications

EditorsCarlos P. BergmannEscola de Engenharia Departamento

de Materials—LACER The Federal University of Rio Grande

do Sul Porto Alegre Brazil

ISSN 2191-3005 ISSN 2191-3013 (electronic)Carbon NanostructuresISBN 978-3-319-18874-4 ISBN 978-3-319-18875-1 (eBook)DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18875-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015939165

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Fernando Machado MachadoCenter of Technological Development Federal University of Pelotas Pelotas, RS Brazil

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Preface

The potential offered by carbon nanomaterials and its innovative applications is attracting increasing interest from various sectors, both academic and industrial, especially application as nanoadsorbent. Carbon nanomaterials can play an impor-tant role in this context, and therefore, an emerging research area is the development of new nanomaterials with promisingly high affinity, capacity, and selectivity for adsorption. The removal of obstacles to the use of carbon nanomaterials, enabling products based on nanostructured materials to be available soon to society, will take place as advances occur in the interaction between industry, research centers, and the development of human resources. Therefore, it is essential to exchange information and experiences in these areas. This book “Carbon Nanomaterials as Adsorbents for Environmental and Biological Applications” shall consider this context.

This book presents a development of the current knowledge available regarding the application of this broad and versatile family for water treatment, drug delivery systems, and nanosensors. The first chapter elucidates aspects of the adsorption process. Afterward, we present the characteristics and properties of fascinating carbon nanomaterials for adsorption application. The subsequent chapter of this book presents the kinetic and equilibrium models of adsorption, processing of experimental data, and adsorption process peculiarities. Environmental and biolog-ical applications of carbon nanomaterials are discussed in the last chapter.

The clear language and the application-oriented perspective from which this book is written make it suitable for both students and researchers that wish to dis-cover more captivating applications of carbon nanomaterials as nanoadsorbents.

Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 2015Pelotas, Brazil

Carlos P. BergmannFernando Machado Machado

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Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Carlos P. Bergmann, Fernando Machado Machado and Éder Cláudio Lima

2 Carbon Nanoadsorbents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Fernando Machado Machado, Solange Binotto Fagan, Ivana Zanella da Silva and Mônica Jung de Andrade

3 Kinetic and Equilibrium Models of Adsorption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Éder Cláudio Lima, Matthew Ayorinde Adebayo and Fernando Machado Machado

4 Experimental Adsorption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Éder Cláudio Lima, Matthew Ayorinde Adebayo and Fernando Machado Machado

5 Carbon Nanomaterials for Environmental Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Fernando Machado Machado, Éder Cláudio Lima, Iuri Medeiros Jauris and Matthew Ayorinde Adebayo

6 Molecules with Biological Interest Adsorbed on Carbon Nanostructures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Mariana Zancan Tonel, Vivian Machado de Menezes, Ivana Zanella and Solange Binotto Fagan