Mohammad Dinari, Roozbeh Soltani, Gholamhossein Mohammadnezhad

2017/6/26

Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data

62

8

2316-2329

American Chemical Society

It is no longer news that the world is in the midst of a freshwater crisis, with the future health
of both humans and the environment being threatened by heavy metal pollution.
Accordingly, attempts at removing the toxic heavy metals from water are attracting
considerable attention around the world. As a result, for the first time, amine-modified MCM-
41/polymer matrix nanocomposites (m-MCM-41/PMNCs) have been applied to remove
hexavalent chromium species (CrVI) from aqueous solution. Poly (methyl methacrylate), poly
(vinyl alcohol), nylon-6, and polystyrene, which are environmentally benign and
economically accessible polymer matrices, were used for fabricating four different types of m-
MCM-41/PMNCs. Owing to the abundance of chemically active functional groups on the
surface of these m-MCM-41/PMNCs, excellent adsorption performance was observed …