Electrospun Nanofibrous Polyacrylonitrile/calixarene Mats: an Excellent Adsorbent for the Removal of Chromate Ions from Aqueous Solutions

Abstract

Herein, calixarene molecules containing piperidine units at lower rim or upper rim of calix skeleton was turned into a water resistant composite nanofiber adsorbent using polyacrylonitrile (PAN) polymeric support via electrospinning process. The PAN based calixarene nanofibrous adsorbents showed an excellent adsorption capacity toward the toxic chromate anions in aqueous solution. Furthermore, this new nanofiber mats would be promising filter materials for drinking water purification.

Preparation and Characterization of Polymer Supported Lewis Acid-type Calix[4]arene for Transport of Dichromate Anions

“…Chrome plating industry generally use Cr (VI). Chrome plating is the operation of electroplating a thin chrome layer to a metal surface (Bayrakci et al, 2017;Kaya et al, 2016).…”