Surface chemistry and reactivity of SiO2 polymorphs: A comparative study on α-quartz and α-cristobalite

Abstract Silica minerals are widely used in environmental remediation for their prevalence in soil and sediment. Two common SiO2 polymorphs, α-quartz and α-cristobalite, were investigated for the removal of a typical cationic dye, methylene blue (MB), from aqueous solutions. Their adsorption behaviors were studied in batch experiments as a function of specific surface area (SSA), pH, and temperature. The surface site density of α-quartz (10.6 sites/nm2) was higher than that of α-cristobalite (6.2 sites/nm2) with the Gran plot method, and the adsorption maxima of MB on the two were 0.84 mg/m2 and 0.49 mg/m2, respectively, at 303 K and pH 8. The potentiometric titration showed the capacity of proton-donating by α-quartz was stronger than that by α-cristobalite. A drastic increase of adsorption amount on α-quartz at pH

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