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. 2023 Oct 26;29(60):e202301854.
doi: 10.1002/chem.202301854. Epub 2023 Sep 19.

Chemical Tailoring of β-Cyclodextrin-Graphene Oxide for Enhanced Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Adsorption from Drinking Water

Francesca Tunioli  1 , Tainah D Marforio  2 , Laura Favaretto  1 , Sebastiano Mantovani  1 , Angela Pintus  1 , Antonio Bianchi  1 , Alessandro Kovtun  1 , Marco Agnes  1 , Vincenzo Palermo  1   3 , Matteo Calvaresi  2 , Maria Luisa Navacchia  1 , Manuela Melucci  1
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Chemical Tailoring of β-Cyclodextrin-Graphene Oxide for Enhanced Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Adsorption from Drinking Water

Francesca Tunioli et al. Chemistry. .

Abstract

We report on the synthesis of β-cyclodextrin (βCD) modified graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets, having different sized alkyl linkers (GO-Cn -βCD) and their exploitation as sorbent of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from drinking water. βCD were functionalized with a pending amino group, and the resulting precursors grafted to GO nanosheets by epoxide ring opening reaction. Loading of βCD units in the range 12 %-36 % was estimated by combined XPS and elemental analysis. Adsorption tests on perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA), a particularly persistent PFAS selected as case study, revealed a strong influence of the alkyl linker length on the adsorption efficiency, with the hexyl linker derivative GO-C6 -βCD outperforming both pristine GO and granular activated carbon (GAC), the standard sorbent benchmark. Molecular dynamic simulations ascribed this evidence to the favorable orientation of the βCD unit on the surface of GO which enables a strong contaminant molecules retention.

Keywords: adsorption; emerging contaminants; graphene oxide; water purification; β-cyclodextrins.

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