Issue 53, 2016, Issue in Progress

Multifunctional hollow polydopamine-based composites (Fe3O4/PDA@Ag) for efficient degradation of organic dyes

Abstract

As a newly appeared biomimetic platform and universal surface modification agent, polydopamine (PDA) has been paid great attention recently. However, the fabrication of multifunctional hollow PDA-based nanostructures remains a challenge and has been rarely reported. Herein, a facile method to prepare multifunctional hollow Fe3O4/PDA@Ag spherical composites is reported. The in situ embedding of Fe3O4 nanoparticles and the formation of a PDA shell have been achieved in a single system employing carboxylic-capped polystyrene (PS-COOH) spheres as a hard template, which can be selectively dissolved by tetrahydrofuran. Subsequently, silver nanoparticles were anchored on the PDA surface via in situ reduction by the PDA layers, leading to a multifunctional hollow PDA-based composite, i.e., Fe3O4/PDA@Ag. This newly prepared composite could efficiently catalyze the degradation of 4-nitrophenol and rhodamine B with NaBH4 as a reducing agent, and the reaction rate constants were calculated using the pseudo-first-order reaction equation. Compared to non-hollow PS@Fe3O4/PDA@Ag, the hollow composite exhibited an enhanced performance toward both reactions without a significant loss in activity even after ten cycles. This multifunctional hollow PDA-based composite may find potential applications in other domains like heavy metal removal or antibacterial applications.

Graphical abstract: Multifunctional hollow polydopamine-based composites (Fe3O4/PDA@Ag) for efficient degradation of organic dyes

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Mar 2016
Accepted
28 Apr 2016
First published
29 Apr 2016

RSC Adv., 2016,6, 47761-47770

Multifunctional hollow polydopamine-based composites (Fe3O4/PDA@Ag) for efficient degradation of organic dyes

B. Mao, Q. An, B. Zhai, Z. Xiao and S. Zhai, RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 47761 DOI: 10.1039/C6RA05954F

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