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Rosin-derived porous microspheres with robust selective cationic dye adsorption

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The utilization of rosin to fabricate functional polymers has attracted great attention due to its unique structure and property. Herein, we prepared a new type of carboxyl-containing cross-linked rosin microspheres (CCRMs) using a renewable-resource rosin as the raw material through the suspension polymerization. For comparative purpose, vanillin methacrylate (VMA), styrene (St) and isobornyl methacrylate (IBOMA) were separately used to replace DAGMA as monomer for the preparation of microspheres. Our results indicated that the obtained porous CCRMs showed a broad size distribution ranging from mesopores (3–50 nm) to macropores (> 50 nm), whereas the counterparts derived from VMA, St or IBOMA showed a powder state. Moreover, the CCRMs exhibited moderately high thermal stability. The integration of DAGMA into polymer microspheres provided CCRMs with excellent adsorption ability, which exhibited robust selective cationic dye (e.g., methylene blue (MB) and crystal violet (CV)) adsorption from waste aqueous solution. The adsorption process was fitted well with the Langmuir isotherm and the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. The maximum adsorption capacity was observed to be 602.4 mg/g for CV at 40 °C, and 512.8 mg/g for MB at 20 °C. In general, the high dye adsorption properties suggest that CCRMs may be highly efficient in adsorption selectivity for some cationic dyes.

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This work was financially supported by the Jiangsu Province Biomass Energy and Materials Laboratory (JSBEM-S-202009), Foundation of National Natural Science Foundation of China (31971600) and National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFE0106800).

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  1. Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, CAF, Nanjing, 210042, Jiangsu Province, China

    Zenghui Cheng, Chunpeng Wang, Meihong Liu, Jifu Wang, Daihui Zhang & Fuxiang Chu

  2. National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Chemical Utilization, Nanjing, 210042, Jiangsu Province, China

    Zenghui Cheng, Chunpeng Wang, Meihong Liu, Jifu Wang, Daihui Zhang & Fuxiang Chu

  3. Key and Open Laboratory of Forest Chemical Engineering, SFA, Nanjing, 210042, Jiangsu Province, China

    Zenghui Cheng, Chunpeng Wang, Meihong Liu, Jifu Wang, Daihui Zhang & Fuxiang Chu

  4. Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Material, Nanjing, 210042, Jiangsu Province, China

    Zenghui Cheng, Chunpeng Wang, Meihong Liu, Jifu Wang, Daihui Zhang & Fuxiang Chu

  5. Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China

    Zenghui Cheng, Chunpeng Wang, Juan Yu, Meihong Liu, Jifu Wang, Daihui Zhang & Fuxiang Chu

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Zenghui Cheng: investigation, designed and writing–original draft; Juan Yu and Meihong Liu: performed experiments; Daihui Zhang: analyzed the data; Chunpeng Wang: resources and methodology; Jifu Wang and Fuxiang Chu: contributed to writing–review and editing.

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Cheng, Z., Wang, C., Yu, J. et al. Rosin-derived porous microspheres with robust selective cationic dye adsorption. Iran Polym J 30, 1041–1052 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13726-021-00955-4

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