Molecular imprinted polymers (MIP) are considered one of the most promising selective and novel separation methods for removal phenolic compound in wastewater treatment. MIP are crosslinked polymeric materials that exhibit high binding capacity and selectivity towards a target molecule (template), purposely present during the synthesis process. In this work MIP were prepared in a bulk polymeriz...

The separation of alkanes is important for a range of applications such as oil refinement, filtration and gas separation. Carbon nanotubes, with their large surface area are highly promising for applications utilising alkane adsorption and separation. Rather than remaining isolated however, nanotubes tend to bundle together, and the adsorption properties of such bundles and subsequent potential...

Since Cohn's cold ethanol method was introduced into routine practice of plasma fractionation in this country, little attention has been paid to other approaches for isolating or fractionating plasma proteins , at least in the level of industrial production. Recently, however, in Western European countries , usefulness of selective adsorption of plasma proteins to various adsorbents is attracti...

A green, efficient and selective approach for the oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides and sulfones with UHP at room temperature is reported. The reaction is performed in the presence of vanadia catalyst supported on mesocellular silica foam (MCF) with a V content ranging from 2% to 10% as heterogeneous and reusable catalyst. The structural and textural characterization of this catalyst were don...

Chromium (Cr) and copper (Cu) are heavy metals known for their dangerous effect towards human health and could enter into human body mainly through ingestion. Over the years, different treatment methods have been used to eliminate heavy metal from raw water source and these include (co)precipitation, coagulation/flocculation, adsorption and ion- exchange. Nonetheless, adsorption is the most pro...

Article history: Received 11 March 2009 Accepted 16 March 2009 Available online 20 March 2009 Communicated by V.M. Agranovich A simple description of the electrode potential based on the selective ionic adsorption is proposed. It is shown that if the adsorption–desorption coefficients entering in the Langmuir kinetic equation for the adsorption at the limiting surfaces are not identical, a diff...

To develop efficient materials with enhanced adsorption and selectivity for genotoxic 2-aminopyridine in water, based on magnetic chitosan (CTs) and β-cyclodextrin (β-CD), the magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers (MMIPs) of Fe₃O₄-CTs@MIP and Fe₃O₄-MAH-β-CD@MIP were synthesized by a molecular imprinting technique using 2-aminopyridine as a template. The selective adsorption experiments for 2-...