Iron-manganese binary oxide coated functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes for arsenic removal

In the present study, we report, iron-manganese based amorphous binary oxide coated functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (f-MWNTs) as an efficient adsorbent for arsenic removal. The Fe-Mn binary oxide/f-MWNTs (FeMn/f-MWNT) has been synthesized by co-precipitation of both oxides in the presence of f-MWNTs and characterized. The arsenic (both arsenate and arsenite) adsorption capacity of the nanocomposite has been studied by batch adsorption method at pH around 7. Langmuir and Elovich equations were used to extract the isotherm and kinetic constants, respectively. This nanocomposite shows fast adsorption kinetics and high adsorption capacity. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.