Article Dans Une Revue Environmental science‎.Nano Année : 2023

Porous calcium copper titanate electrodes for paracetamol degradation by electro-oxidation via CuO-induced peroxymonosulfate activation

Eddy Petit
Marc Cretin
David Cornu

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Some drugs cannot be efficiently eliminated using routine wastewater treatments and therefore are considered persistent organic pollutants (POPs). POPs can be removed using advanced oxidation processes. Among these processes, the combination of electrocatalysis and a sulfate-based advanced oxidation process via peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation is an attractive approach due to its high efficiency, low energy consumption and non-selective attack. It is well known that the type of anode strongly affects the electrocatalysis performance for water treatment. Here, we evaluated perovskites as electrode material due to their unique structural properties and high chemical stability. We fabricated porous anodes of calcium copper titanate (CaCu3Ti4O12; CCTO) with different percentages (20%, 30% and 40%) of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) by ball-milling. The samples that included PMMA displayed 50% porosity and pores were homogenously distributed. Morphological measurements show the presence of grain structures and grain boundaries containing CCTO and CuO phases, respectively. CCTO with 30 wt% PMMA (CCTO-30) exhibited the highest CuO phase amount, defect percentage and oxidation–reduction peak, and the smallest resistance. We used the obtained CCTO nanocomposites as anodes in a beaker (210 mL) with PMS (0.5 mM) to treat 10 ppm paracetamol in 50 mM sodium sulfate. After 90 minutes, paracetamol was completely decomposed using CCTO-30 due to PMS activation by a copper catalytic cycle (Cu2+/Cu1+ and Cu2+/Cu3+) to generate ˙SO4− radicals and Cu3+ non-radicals that are selective for its removal.

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hal-04797685 , version 1 (09-07-2025)

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Elissa Makhoul, Fida Tanos, Maged Bekheet, Wiebke Riedel, Eddy Petit, et al.. Porous calcium copper titanate electrodes for paracetamol degradation by electro-oxidation via CuO-induced peroxymonosulfate activation. Environmental science‎.Nano, 2023, 10 (11), pp.3156-3170. ⟨10.1039/D3EN00317E⟩. ⟨hal-04797685⟩
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