A Report on Manufacturing Mesoporous Magnetic Modified MCM-41 and its Application for the Removal of Ni(II) from Aqueous Solution

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Abadan Institute of Technology, Petroleum University of Technology, North Bowardeh, Abadan, Iran.

2 Institute of Nano Science and Nano Technology, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

3 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University

Abstract

Mesoporous silica is an important material which has various industrial applications.
Currently, it is produced from precursors that are costly. Mesoporous silica with pores of
ordered 1-dimensional hexagonal structure MCM-41was synthesized under basic media using
sugar cane ash as silica precursor and cetyltrimethylammoniumbromide(CTAB) as surfactant.
For the sake of simplicity
; iron(II,III) oxide (FeO.Fe2O3) was used in the synthesis of a new
generation of modified MCM-41. The expanded material was prepared by modification with
dimethylglyoxime (dmg) and it was tested for adsorption of Ni(II) in aqueous solution. It was
found that the modified magnetic MCM-41 has a very high capacity for adsorption of heavy
metals.