A Sensitive Material
for Specifically Treating Tetracycline
in Water Environment
OU Min-Rui*, ZHANG Zi-Hui, WEN Yu-Kai, XU Xiao-Ping and YANG Huang-Hao*
Chin.
J. Struct. Chem. 2021, 40, 646-652 DOI: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2011-2984
May 15, 2021
complex
material, antibody, specificity, tetracycline, water treatment
ABSTRACT
There are currently
many materials for treating residual antibiotics in the environment, but none
of them can specifically remove antibiotics. In addition, these materials are
not sensitive enough to low concentrations of antibiotics. Here we show that a
sensitive and specific material was developed by the preparation of magnetic Fe3O4-PAMAM-antibody
complexes for treating tetracycline. The prepared antibody complexes can
specifically treat tetracycline from aqueous solutions and the tetracycline
removal ability by adsorption was also investigated. Controlled experiments
were carried out with the effects of solution pH, temperature, and initial concentration
of the tetracycline. The tetracycline was completely removed within 35 min at
room temperature 30 °C with the maximum removal rate of almost 100%. Therefore,
this material for specifically combining antigen and antibody to treat
tetracycline indicated good application prospects for the waste water
treatment.