Synthesis and Characterization of Adsorbent Materials Magnetite Mercaptosilicate Ion Imprinted Polymer as Cadmium Ion Adsorbent

Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal with the active property of reacting with other components so that cadmium residues can quickly enter the food chain and cause cardiovascular, kidney, and cancer diseases. The purpose was to synthesize the magnetite mercaptosilicate ion imprinted polymer adsorbent material by forming Ion-Imprinted Polymer as a template, to analyze the characterization results using XRD and SEM-EDS, and to determine the adsorption test results for Cd metal ions. The results of the characterization of XRD show that there is a broad peak at a diffraction angle of 2θ= 20-220 with an amorphous structure, which is silica, and there is a high peak at a diffraction angle of 2θ= 35.55140 which indicates magnetite. The results of SEM analysis with magnifications of 500x, 1000x, and 5000x showed that the surface morphology of the particles was not uniform. For the EDS results, it can be seen that the components of the magnetite mercaptosilicate ion imprinted polymer material are elements C, O, Si, S, and Fe, with a mass percentage of 25.0%; 41.2%; 29.9%; 3.28% and 0.8%. The results of the adsorption test for the Magnetite-IIP-Mercaptosilika Material were able to adsorb Cd ions with the highest adsorption capacity of 10.536 mg/g at a concentration of 100 mg/L. Then the selectivity coefficient value of the Ion Cd metal ion is 2.32 greater than 1, indicating that the selectivity of the magnetite mercaptosilicate ion imprinted polymer material is much higher for Ion Cd metal ions than for Cu and Cr ions with a selectivity coefficient of 0.1 and 0.26.


Introduction
Environmental pollution is a negative impact caused by the rapid development of industrial technology; one of the dangerous pollutant materials is heavy metals.Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal that occurs naturally in ecosystems, and its presence is increased by anthropogenic activities that threaten animal and human life.Cadmium has the active property of reacting with other components so that cadmium residues can quickly enter the food chain by consuming contaminated vegetables and fish [1] , [2] .Cadmium that enters food is capable of contaminating the human body so that it can cause cardiovascular, kidney, and cancer diseases [3] .
Various methods are used to reduce the concentration of contaminants such as cadmium in wastewater.The most selective and efficient is the adsorbent [4] .The adsorbent DOI: https://doi.org/10.25077/jrk.v14i2.621 to be developed is magnetite-mercapto silicate nanoparticles (Fe3O4-MS).Magnetite is a type of iron oxide with good magnetic properties and is very effective as an adsorbent for removing various heavy metal cations in wastewater [5] .However, magnetite is unstable because it is easily oxidized.Magnetite must be coated with silica from rice husk ash, with as much as 86.90-90.30%SiO2 content.Silica is a porous material with a flexible structure, large surface area, good mechanical stability, and heat resistance [6] .In addition, on the silica surface, there are active sites in the form of silanol groups (Si-OH) and siloxane (Si-O-Si), and the presence of -OH groups can be modified into other active functional groups such as -CH, -SH and NH2 [7] .The disadvantage of using silica gel as an adsorbent is the low adsorption effectiveness of metal ions.
Adsorption efficacy can be increased by modifying the silica surface.The silica surface can be modified by adding -SH groups produced from 2-mercaptoethanol, resulting in mercapto silicate (MS).When mercapto silicate (MS) is mixed with magnetite to generate Fe3O4-MS material, regular pores form and surface expansion occurs.The ability of Fe3O4-MS needs to be improved to be more selective in adsorbing cadmium ions.Increasing the selectivity of Fe3O4-MS can be increased by forming an Ion Imprinted Polymer (IIP).
IIP is a method to produce adsorbents that have high selectivity properties and are very suitable for the adsorption of heavy metal ions.IIP has high selectivity because it includes metal ions as mold formers.Previous research has reported the synthesis of Ion Imprinted Polymer material using 3-ammonium propyl triethoxysilane (APTES) as a functional monomer and tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) as a crosslinker with an adsorption capacity of 7.34 mg/g while the Un-Ionic Imprinted Polymer material has an adsorption capacity of 5.59 mg/g against ion cadmium [8] .Combining Fe3O4-MS with the formation of ion imprinted polymer so that it becomes magnetite mercaptosilicate ion imprinted polymer (Magnetit-IIP-MS), which can produce a material adsorbent that is efficient, selective, has high adsorption capacity and thermal stability.This material is also resistant and can be used repeatedly, so its application costs relatively little [9] , [10] .

Instruments
The tools used in this study were a set of standard glassware (Erlenmeyer flask, volume pipette, baking glass, funnel (Pyrex), analytical balance, oven, furnace, sample bottle, filter paper, hotplate, magnetic stirrer, volumetric flask, stir bar, spatula, mortal and pestle as well as X-Ray Diffraction (XRD XPERT PRO PANalytical PW3040/60), Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (SEM-EDS Type Prisma E 16.0 Thermo Scientific) and Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS).

Synthesis of Sodium Silicate and Synthesis of Silica from Rice Husk Ash
Destruction of sodium silicate from rice husk ash was carried out using the sol-gel method.Rice husk is burned to become charcoal, then heated at 700 0 C. Then crushed until smooth and sieved at 270 mesh.Take 100 grams of rice husk ash, add 80 grams of crystal NaOH, and add 500 mL of distilled water.Then heated and stirred using a stirrer for 2 hours at room temperature.After the stirrer is cooled and filtered, the filtrate is taken.The filtrate is Sodium Silicate (Na2SiO3).
Continuing with the synthesis of silica, 2M HCl was added drop by drop into the Na2SiO3 solution to a pH of 9, and a sol was formed.
Then let stand for 3x24 hours until a gel forms, then washed with distilled water until the pH is neutral, filtered and dried in an oven at 80 0 C for 2 hours, then crushed until smooth.Silica was obtained and characterized using XRD.

Magnetite Synthesis (Fe3O4)
The synthesis of magnetite (Fe3O4) was carried out using the coprecipitation method.As much as 8 grams FeCl3.6H2O and 4 grams FeSO4.7H2O each dissolved in 30 mL of distilled water until homogeneous and the two solutions were mixed.After mixing, the solution was heated to 60 0 C and stirred with a stirrer, and slowly added 10% NH4OH solution to produce a black precipitate, carried out for 90 minutes.The precipitate was separated from the solution by filtration, then rinsed with distilled water until the ammonia smell disappeared and dried in an oven at 80 0 C for 3 hours, then crushed until smooth.Obtained precipitate which is Fe3O4 and characterized using XRD.

Mercaptosilicate Coated Magnetite Material (Fe3O4-MS)
Coating of magnetite with mercapto silica was carried out using the sol-gel method.As much as 2 grams of Fe3O4 was dissolved with 4 mL of 1 M HCl solution, then added 5 mL of sodium silicate (Na2SiO3) and 10 mL of 2mercaptoethanol and stirred using a stirrer for 2 hours.After mixing, distilled water was added until the volume of the mixture was 24 mL and 1 M HCl was added drop by drop until it reached pH 7. The resulting precipitate was separated with an external magnet, then washed with distilled water and dried at 80 0 C for 2 hours, then crushed until smooth.Magnetite-MS was obtained and characterized using XRD.

Synthesis of Magnetite Mercaptosilicate Ion Imprinted Polymer
Magnetite-IIP-MS synthesis was carried out with 5 mL of APTMS dissolved in 5 mL of 0.5 M cadmium ion and stirred using a stirrer for 3 hours at room temperature.Furthermore, 5 grams of silica and 0.5 grams of Fe3O4-MS material were dissolved with 50 mL of ethanol, then stirred for 2 hours at room temperature.Then mix the two solutions until homogeneous and let stand for 24 hours.Then it was leached using 3 M H2SO4, then rinsed with distilled water until the pH was neutral, and dried in an oven at 80 0 C for 3 hours.Magnetite-IIP-MS material was obtained and characterized using XRD and SEM-EDS.

Adsorption Test with the Effect of Concentration
A total of 20 mL of Cd solution with various concentrations of 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, and 100 mg/L.Then added 0.1 gram of Magnetite-IIP-MS adsorbent material each.Then stirred using a shaker with a variation of contact time of 30 minutes.Then the solution was filtered and the filtrate was analyzed using AAS.

Selectivity test
A total of 10 mL of a solution of Cd ions, Cu ions, and Cr ions with each concentration of 10 mg/L was put into the Erlenmeyer.Then 0.1 gram of Magnetite-IIP-MS adsorbent material was added.Then stirred using a shaker with a variation of contact time of 30 minutes.Then the solution was filtered and the filtrate was analyzed using AAS.

Results and Disscusion
Synthesis of mercapto silicate magnetite-IIP adsorbent material begins with the destruction of sodium silicate from rice husk ash which is a source of silica (SiO2) which is carried out by adding NaOH as an extractor.As for the reaction of SiO2 and NaOH.SiO2(s) + 2NaOH(aq) → Na2SiO3(aq) + H2O(l) During this process, NaOH which is the extractor will break down the molecule (doctorate) by forming Na + and OH -ions.In the SiO2 compound the element O has a higher electronegativity than Si so the OH -ion will affect the Si element which is more electropositive and will form a compound in the form of [SiO2OH] -The remaining OH -ion affects the protonated H + ion in the compound DOI: https://doi.org/10.25077/jrk.v14i2.621 [SiO2OH] -so that the H + from these compounds are released and form H2O molecules.The release of H + ions causes the formation of SiO3 2 compounds which will then bind to two H + ions which dissociate from NaOH to form Na2SiO3 which is a brownish-red solution.
Next, the preparation of silica was taken from a sodium silicate solution.The process of making silica used the sol-gel method, which was carried out in the following stages:  acidification of sodium silicate, which acts as a precursor  forming hydrogels  washing hydrogels and drying hydrogels to become xerogels The last step is drying using an oven at 70˚C for 2 hours, then grinding until smooth and getting silica as a white powder.
The synthesis of Fe3O4 was carried out using the coprecipitation method, which is based on the deposition of more than one substance together.The precursors used in this process are iron (II) sulfate heptahydrate (FeSO4.7H2O)and iron (III) chloride hexahydrate (FeCl3.8H2O)as sources of Fe 2+ and Fe 3+ in a ratio of 2:1.In the coprecipitation process by dissolving FeSO4.7H2O and FeCl3.6H2O in distilled water to produce a solution containing Fe 2+ and Fe 3+ ions.At the same time, the water contained in the hydrolyzed solution becomes H + dan OH -.Fe 3+ ions bind to hydroxyl groups to form Fe(OH)3. Fe(OH)3 is hydrolyzed to FeOOH, which is indicated by a reddish-brown color in the solution.Fe 2+ ion binds to a hydroxyl group to form Fe(OH)2.Then, a precipitating agent, namely NH4OH, was added so that FeOOH and Fe(OH)2 reacted to form Fe3O4, which was marked by a change in the color of the solution to dark black [11] .Then, it was filtered and rinsed until the smell of NH4OH disappeared.Then put in the oven at 80 0C for 3 hours.The Fe3O4 obtained is black powder, as shown in Figure 1(a).
The synthesis of mercapto silica-coated magnetite material involves the silica gelation process of the Na2SiO3 compound followed by the attachment of the mercapto group (-SH) of the 2-Mercaptoethanol compound.The coating of Fe3O4 with silica and mercapto groups was carried out in water solvent.Before that, magnetite acidification was first carried out by adding 1 M HCl solution which aims to form active sites on the surface of magnetite, so that it can easily interact with the reagent to be coated.Then, it continued with the formation of mercaptosilika (MS), namely the interaction between mercapto and silicate ions.Furthermore, during the Fe3O4-MS coating process, namely by adding 1 M HCl solution until it reaches a pH of 7, the aim is to produce silicate anions from sodium silicate solution so that they can form siloxane bonds.
It is because part of the protonated silicate anion forms the driving force of silicic acid which causes the formation of a silica network (oligomerization) so that condensation occurs between the anion and silicic acid and forms a gel.In addition, the addition of acid leads to the protonation of the oxygen atoms in magnetite thereby reducing the negative charge density on the Fe atoms.This makes Fe easily attracted by the electron pair from the siloxy group (Si-O -) of the silicate anion to form the Fe-O-Si group.The result of making mercapto silicate-coated magnetite is in the form of a gray powder and does not lose its magnetic properties as shown in Figure 1(b).After the process of making mercaptosilicatecoated magnetite (magnetite-MS).Furthermore, a selective synthesis was carried out when carrying out adsorption, namely by using the Ionic Imprinted Polymer method.Using this method will form a mold that matches the target metal.The first stage begins with the formation of a binary complex between the metal and the chelating ligand by mixing a solution of cadmium ion and APTMS which is stirred for 3 hours at room temperature.The cadmium ion solution serves as the template itself while the APTMS compound is used as the functional monomer (chelating ligand).Then in a different place, namely mixing silica material which functions as a cross-linker, and magnetite-MS as the core with ethanol solvent for 2 hours at room temperature.DOI: https://doi.org/10.25077/jrk.v14i2.621 The next stage of polymerization is by mixing the two solutions and letting them stand for 24 hours.In this process, there is a crosslinker that can bind functional monomers to binary complex ions that will be printed with a combination of compounds.After polymerization has occurred, leaching with a suitable solvent is carried out to separate the metal ions from the polymer.In this synthesis, the leaching solvent used is H2SO4 3 M, H + ions from the H2SO4 solvent will generate energy to bind Cd ions covalently and form polymer templates [12] .When the Cd ions are successfully separated, the polymer will selectively form according to the size and function of the ions that enter the polymer, this is what is known as Ion Imprinted Polymers.Then filtered and rinsed using distilled water until the pH is neutral.The final step is drying using an oven at 80˚C for 2 hours.The results obtained are brownish-gray powder as shown in Figure 1(c).

Characterization
To find out the compounds and structures contained in the synthesized material, the analysis that can be used is the X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) instrument.
In the diffractogram in Figure 4(a), which is the diffraction pattern of Fe3O4, there are three main peaks, namely at an angle of 2θ= 35,452 0 ; 62,728 0, and 30,168 0, and the highest peak is at the diffraction angle 2θ= 35,452 0 .This is by the JCPDS card database no.39-1340 for magnetite standards.Figure 4(b) is a diffractogram of mercaptosilicate-coated magnetite material (Fe3O4-MS).In the diffractogram, there is the highest peak at the diffraction angle of 2θ= 2θ= 35,3843 0 which indicates magnetite.In addition, there is a slightly widened peak at a diffraction angle of 2θ=20-22 0 .It is agreed that the broad peaks at the diffraction angle 2θ = 20-22 0 indicate the presence of silica with an amorphous structure that is present due to the addition of mercapto silicate to coat the magnetite [13] . Figure 4(c) is a diffractogram of the main product Magnetite-IIP-MS adsorbent material in this study.From the diffractogram, there is a broad peak at the diffraction angle of 2θ= 20-22 0 with an amorphous structure indicating silica.The diffraction angle of this material has wider peaks than the material that has not yet formed an IIP, namely the Fe3O4-MS material.This is due to the addition of silica as a crosslinker.In addition, there is a high peak at a diffraction angle of 2θ= 35,5514 0 which indicates magnetite.This means that this material does not lose its magnetic properties after the leaching process.
Besides being characterized using XRD, characterization was also carried out using SEM which aims to determine in general the surface morphology, surface homogeneity, and distribution of particles in a material.Based on research [14] magnetite-ion imprinted polymer materials have irregular morphology.This is consistent with the results of research conducted that the material that has formed IIP has a non-uniform particle surface morphology.In addition, at 5000x magnification it shows that there is an overlap between the grayishwhite lumps which are indicated as silica, and the gray-black lumps which are indicated as Fe3O4, this occurs because of the coating process [15] .From the results of this analysis, the Magnetite-IIP-MS adsorbent material still has magnetic properties after the leaching process.Furthermore, to see the presence of components contained in a material, EDS analysis can be used.In this study, several components make up the Magnetite-IIP-MS material, namely elements C, O, Si, S, and Fe.The component that has the highest first percentage is element O 41.02% derived from Si-O-Si and Si-OH compounds.The second is the element Si 29.9% derived from mercaptosilika.Then the third is element C 25.0% derived from methyl compounds that are in APTMS.Then there is the 03.28%Fe element which is a compound of Fe3O4 and the last is the 0.8% S element derived from the H2SO4 compound.From the results of the EDS analysis, the Magnetite-IIP-MS adsorbent material component does not contain Cd, which means that the Cd has been successfully separated so that it can be said to have formed an ion imprinted polymer as a template.

Effect of Adsorbate Concentration on Adsorption of Cd ions
The effect of Adsorbate Concentration on the Adsorption of Cd ions by Magnetite IIP-MS adsorbent material was carried out at various concentrations of 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, and 100 mg/L.DOI: https://doi.org/10.25077/jrk.v14i2.621Adsorption was carried out for 30 minutes using a 100 rpm shaker with a mass of 0.1 grams of adsorbent.Determination of the concentration was carried out to determine the amount of concentration between the adsorbent and Cd ions so that the ability of the adsorbent material can be known.
In Figure (7) it can be seen that the amount of Cd ion adsorbate was able to be adsorbed by the Magnetite-IIP-MS adsorbent material with the highest adsorption capacity of 10.636 mg/g and still increased to a concentration of 100 mg/L.This shows that the Magnetite-IIP-MS adsorbent material has not reached equilibrium, which means that the ability of the adsorbent to adsorb Cd ions can still be above 100 mg/L.It can also be seen that the amount of adsorbate adsorbed on the adsorbent increases linearly with increasing concentration.The results obtained correspond to the increasing concentration, the more adsorbate and adsorbent molecules that interact with each other in the adsorption process, so that adsorption tends to increase [16] .

Selectivity Determination
The competitive metal ions used are Cu and Cr ions with ionic radii of 0.72 Å and 0.87 Å. Cu ions and Cr ions are used as competitive metal ions because these metals belong to the transition metal group, as are Cd ions.The selectivity test is indicated by the magnitude of the distribution coefficient (Kd) and selectivity coefficient (k) which can be calculated using the following equation [17] .Thus, the magnetite-IIP-MS material showed better adsorption selectivity to Cd ions than solutions containing other metal ions.This is because the IIP-MS magnetite material has a special identification cavity for Cd ions or a mold has formed on its surface so that it can absorb Cd ions specifically.

Conclusions
The magnetite mercaptosilicate ion-imprinted polymer material can adsorb more Cd ions than Cu and Cr ions.The Cd ion selectivity coefficient of 2.32 is greater than 1, indicating that the selectivity of the mercaptosilicate magnetite ion-imprinted polymer material is much higher for Cd ions compared to Cu ions and Cr ions, which have selectivity coefficient values of 0.1 and 0.26.
The results of the characterization of the Magnetite-IIP-Mercaptosilika adsorbent material were analyzed using XRD instrument the results of a wide peak at a diffraction angle of 2θ= 20-22 0 with an amorphous structure indicating silica and there is a high peak at a diffraction angle of 2θ= 35.5514 0 which indicates magnetite.For SEM-EDS instruments in the SEM analysis with 500x, 1000x, and 5000x magnification the results of the analysis of the magnetite merkaptosilka ion imprinted polymer adsorbent material showed nonuniform particle surface morphology.Furthermore, for the EDS results, it can be seen that the components of the Magnetite-IIP-Mercaptosilika material are elements C, O, Si, S, and Fe, with a mass percentage of 25.0% respectively; 41.2%; 29.9%; 3.28% and 0.8%.

Figure 7 .
Figure 7. Graph of the Effect of Adsorbate Concentration on the Adsorption Capacity of Cd Ions

Figure 8 .
Figure 8. Adsorbate and Selectivity Coefficients of Cd, Cu, and Cr Ions