Enhanced adsorption of trivalent arsenic from water by functionalized diatom silica shells.

The potential of porous diatom silica shells as a naturally abundant low-cost sorbent for the removal of arsenic in aqueous solutions was investigated in a batch study. The objective of this work was to chemically modify the silica shells of a diatom Melosira sp. with bifunctional (thiol and amino)...

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Main Authors: Jianying Zhang, Tengda Ding, Zhijian Zhang, Liping Xu, Chunlong Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4383452?pdf=render