Phenylthiourea Modified Highly Ordered Nanoporous Silica for Heavy Metal Ion (Hg2+ ) Trapping

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 School of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Tehran,Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Chemistry, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

10.7508/jns.2012.01.001

Abstract

The phenylthiourea-substituted triethoxysilane as a silane agent was synthesized and grafted on highly ordered nanoporous silica (LUS- 1) with a textured morphology and hexagonal array. This material (Tu-LUS-1) contained 0.8 mmol/g of soft base phenylthiourea group and surface area 760 m2 g-1  and was able to adsorb 0.75 mmolHg/g of TU-LUS-1 in endothermic reaction.

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