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Insight into the effect of phosphate on ferrihydrite colloid-mediated transport of tetracycline in saturated porous media

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Colloid-mediated contaminant mobility is absolutely critical for the environmental behavior of contaminants such as antibiotics in water resources. In this study, the influences of phosphate (a commonly inorganic ligand in the environment) on the ferrihydrite colloid-mediated transport of tetracycline (TC, a typical antibiotic) in porous media were investigated. In the absence of colloids, phosphate promoted TC mobility due to the competitive deposition of phosphate and TC on the sand surface as well as the electrostatic repulsion. Interestingly, ferrihydrite colloids could inhibit TC transport; however, the inhibitory effect of the colloids was weakened by the addition of phosphate. This phenomenon stemmed from colloid-associated TC mobility, the increased electrostatic repulsion induced by adsorbed phosphate, and deposition site competition effect. Another interesting finding was that the impacts of phosphate on the colloid-mediated mobility of TC were pH-dependent. That is, phosphate exhibited a weaker effect on the inhibitory role of ferrihydrite colloids in TC mobility at pH 5.0 than that at pH 7.0; specially, ferrihydrite colloids acted as possible carriers of TC and facilitated antibiotic transport at pH 9.0. The observations were ascribed to different influences of phosphate on the binding affinity of ferrihydrite toward TC and the mobility of free TC under different pH conditions. Therefore, the findings of this study provide useful information about the fate and co-transport of antibiotics and natural mineral colloids in the presence of inorganic ligands in the aquatic environment.

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The authors would like to express their gratitude to the NSFC-Shandong United Fund, the National Key Research and Development Program, and Henan University post-doctoral start-up research funds.

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This study was funded by NSFC-Shandong United Fund (U1906222), the National Key Research and Development Program (2019YFC1804104), Henan Province post-doctoral research funds (CJ3050A0670547), the Project Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program for Minsheng College Students (KCCXSY-2021–059), and Chinese Scholarship Council (201708420145).

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    Qiqi Wei, Jiuyan Chen, Usman Farooq & Zhichong Qi

  2. Ecology Institute of the Shandong Academy of Sciences, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, 250353, China

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  4. Key Laboratory for Humid Subtropical Eco-Geographical Processes of the Ministry of Education/ Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Eco-Physiology, School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, Fujian, China

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Wei, Q., Chen, J., Zhang, Q. et al. Insight into the effect of phosphate on ferrihydrite colloid-mediated transport of tetracycline in saturated porous media. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 80693–80704 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-21536-9

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