Selective and High Capacity Recovery of Aqueous Ag(I) by Thiol Functionalized Mesoporous Silica Sorbent

Herman, Petra and Pércsi, Dániel and Fodor, Tamás and Juhász, Laura and Dudás, Zoltán and Horváth, Zsolt E. and Kalmár, József and Almásy, László (2023) Selective and High Capacity Recovery of Aqueous Ag(I) by Thiol Functionalized Mesoporous Silica Sorbent. JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS : STRUCTURE, INTERACTIONS AND DYNAMICS OF SIMPLE, MOLECULAR, IONIC AND COMPLEX LIQUIDS, 387. No.-122598. ISSN 0167-7322 (print); 1873-3166 (online)

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Abstract

A simplified sol-gel method was developed for the preparation of thiol functionalized porous silica particles using (3-mercaptopropyl)-trimethoxy-silane (MPTMS) for co-gelation in the presence of micellar templates. The resulting short range ordered porous silica microparticles are exceptionally effective sorbents of aqueous Ag(I). The binding of aqueous Ag(I) is almost stoichiometric in the broad pH range between 4.0 and 9.0 even at low Ag(I) concentrations until reaching the limiting 238 mg g–1 sorption capacity. The sorbent displays high selectivity towards Ag(I), which was tested in the simultaneous presence of several different metal compounds. The practically complete recovery of Ag(I) and the regeneration of the sorbent was achieved by washing with a 10 mM Na2S2O3 solution. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) revealed that silver is not reduced on the surface of the sorbent. The reason for the strong and selective binding of Ag(I) is the formation of layered thiolate coordination compounds on the functionalized silica surface that display characteristically high stability even in the presence of other competing metal ions.

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