Adsorption Study of Neodymium from the Aqueous Phase Using Fabricated Magnetic Chitosan-Functionalized Graphene Oxide Composites

Abstract

This work reports the performances of the magnetic chitosan@graphene oxide composite (MCh@GO) for the sorption of Nd(III) from aqueous medium. The prepared composite was synthesized by a coprecipitation method and then examined by FT-IR, XRD, SEM, and TGA. XRD analysis proved physical interactions between magnetic chitosan and graphene oxide through (inter-and intramolecular H-bonding and peptide bonding). TGA data approved the thermal stability of the prepared MCh@GO nanocomposite over their constituents. The optimum pH for the sorption process was 4.5. The Langmuir model and PSO fitted the experimental data. The adsorption process was found to be endothermic and spontaneous with a Q max of 56.6 mg g −1 . Indeed, the MCh@GO composite proved to be an excellent adsorbent for the purification, remediation, and separation of Nd due to its promising properties.