Facile Hydrothermal Synthesis of Cu2MoS4 and FeMoS4 for Efficient Adsorption of Chlortetracycline

Contamination of antibiotics in an aqueous environment has attracted wide attention. Developing high-efficiency adsorbents for removal is urgent. In this work, two kinds ternary transition metal chalcogenides—Cu2MoS4 and FeMoS4 with superior adsorption performance were prepared by a facile hydrothermal synthesis method. The microstructure physicochemical properties the analyzed X-ray diffraction (XRD), photoelectron spectroscope (XPS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning (SEM). as-prepared Cu2MoS4 found to have dramatic potential chlortetracycline (CTC) solution extremely high capacity. Langmuir maximum capacity CTC can reach 1203.81 2169.19 mg/g, respectively, which goes far beyond common as reported. Moreover, kinetics, thermodynamics well mechanism examined detail batch experiments.