Hydrothermal synthesis of a mineral-substituted hydroxyapatite nanocomposite material for fluoride removal from drinking water

• Published in: New journal of chemistry Vol. 42; no. 15; pp. 12711 - 12721
• Main Authors: Nagaraj, Ammavasi, Munusamy, Murugan A., Ahmed, Mukhtar, Suresh Kumar, S., Rajan, Mariappan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Royal Society of Chemistry 2018
• Subjects: Drinking water; Endothermic reactions; Fluorides; Fourier transforms; Hydroxyapatite; Infrared analysis; Ion exchange; Isotherms; Materials substitution; Nanocomposites; Parameters; Regeneration; Scanning electron microscopy; Sorption; X ray analysis; X-ray diffraction

This work deals with the fluoride removal studies of a mineral-substituted hydroxyapatite (mHAp) nanocomposite. The developed hybrid mHAp nanocomposite displays a high fluoride removal capacity of 8.36 mg g −1 . Batch sorption experiments were performed to determine the effect of various influencing...