Abstract: Bisphenol A molecularly imprinting adsorbent (BPA-MIA) was synthesized by the molecular imprinting technique with a sol-gel process in order to improve the selectivity in water. The prepared BPA-MIA was characterized using SEM, EDS, FTIR and TG, and the characters of adsorption and selective recognition were investigated comparing to BPA molecular non-imprinting adsorbent (BPA-MNIA) without BPA temple. The results showed that the adsorption equilibrium time was 120 min. The equilibrium data fitted well to the pseudo-second-order kinetic and the Langmuir model for BPA binding onto BPA-MIA, respectively. The maximum capacity was 16.69 mg/g which was five times higher than that of BPA-MNIA, and it had a high selective adsorption for the imprinted BPA in water phase
Template and target information: bisphenol A, BPA
Author keywords: adsorbent, bisphenol A, molecular imprinting, selectivity