Preparation of Molybdenum Disulfide Nanopowders and Their Adsorption Performance for Rhodamine B

Abstract

Abstract With industrialization, industrial wastewater, especially dye wastewater, flows into water resources, causing serious water pollution problems. Therefore, it is urgent to quarantine organic dyes from wastewater and improve water resource quality. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanomaterials are widely used in water treatment fields because of their special structure and properties; a case in point is pollutant adsorption, photocatalysis, membrane separation, and antibacterial treatment. In this paper, ammonium molybdate and thiourea were used as precursors; while the relative concentration of thiourea was increased, MoS2 nanopowders were prepared by the hydrothermal method. Then the prepared MoS2 nanopowders were characterized. The adsorption performance of organic dyes was preliminarily studied with the rhodamine B dye adsorption model.