Utilization of charge-transfer complexation to generate carbon-based nanomaterial for the adsorption of pollutants from contaminated water: Reaction between urea and vacant orbital acceptors

In this study, the charge-transfer complexation between urea as a donor and vacant orbital acceptors (i.e., FeCl3 and NiCl2) was used to generate a NiFe2O4 composite. The resultant composite was used to increase the adsorption capacity of free fullerene carbon nanotubes (CNT) for two organic dyes as example models [toluidine blue (TB) and eosin B (EB)] by combining this CNT with the resultant composite. Fullerenes are a type of carbon...