Book title: New Membranes and Advanced Materials for Wastewater Treatment
Editors: Mueller A, Guieysse B, Sarkar A
Publisher: American Chemical Society
City: Washington DC
ISBN: 0-8412-7214-X
Series title: ACS Symposium Series
Volume number: 1022
Abstract: Imprinting polymerization was used to make high capacity resins for heavy metal ions for wastewater remediation. Resins already used in wastewater treatment were being imprinted. 100% removal efficiency for up to 80 ppm of cadmium and mercury ions with only 200 mg of resin was demonstrated with the imprinted resins, but not the non-imprinted reference samples. For hydrophobic complexes, imprinting emulsion polymerization was developed. The effect of ionic vs. metalligand forces on imprinting polymerization is being discussed as well