Methacrylate-Based Polymeric Sorbents for Recovery of Metals from Aqueous Solutions

The industrialization and urbanization expansion have increased the demand for precious rare earth elements (REEs). In addition, environmental concerns regarding toxic effects of heavy metals on living organisms imposed an urgent need efficient methods their removal from wastewaters aqueous solutions. most technique metal ions is adsorption due to its reversibility high efficiency. Numerous adsorbents were mentioned as possible in literature. Chelating polymer ligands (CPLs) with adaptable surface chemistry, affinity towards targeted ions, capacity, fast kinetics, chemically stable, reusable are especially attractive. This review focused methacrylate-based magnetic non-magnetic porous sorbents. Special attention was devoted amino-modified glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) copolymers. Main parameters, kinetic models, isotherms, thermodynamics process, well regeneration polymeric sorbents discussed.