New functional materials for heavy metal sorption: “Supramolecular” attachment of thiols to mesoporous silica substrates
- 26 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 43,p. 5583-5585
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b810576f
Abstract
A new class of sorbent material, which exhibits exceptional metal capture from contaminated natural water, features aromatic thiolligands reversibly bound to functionalized mesoporous silica through non-covalent interactions and have the potential of being regenerable.Keywords
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