Title:An Overview of Removal of Heavy Metal Ions From Toxic Aqueous Solution
Using Pani-Based Adsorbents
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Author(s): Smruti Rekha Mohanty and Susanta Kumar Biswal*
Affiliation:
- Department of Chemistry, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India
Keywords:
Adsorption, PANI, metal oxide, mechanism, heavy metal extraction, nanomaterials.
Abstract: In the present time, water pollution has become a quibbling issue in the current environmental
engineering and protection senario. The most important aspect of nanocomposite is to
develop economic and bio-friendly route for the synthesis of nanosamples. Various methods such
as ion exchange, reverse osmosis, filtration, adsorption, etc. for removing the metal ions from toxic
water were studied. Among these methods, adsorption technique is widely used due to low cost.
Basically, over the last years, conducting polymer based nanocomposites showed their application
in different heavy metal ions especially Hg (II), Cd(II), Cr(VI), Pb(II), As(V), etc. Among the various
conducting polymers, PANI plays the most important role in extracting the necessary heavy
metal ions. The current review mainly focuses on the synthesis, adsorption and mechanism of different
PANI-based adsorbents like PANI/iron oxide, PANI/ZNO, PANI/GO, and
PANI/CHITOSAN, etc., which extract the heavy metal ions.