Water Splitting: A Targeted “Capture” and “Removal” Scavenger toward Multiple Pollutants for Water Remediation based on Molecular Recognition (Adv. Sci. 3/2016)

For adsorbents used in water remediation, the long-standing contradictions between selectivity and multiple adsorbability, and affinity and recyclability, have led to difficulties in applications towards environmental crises. In article number 1500289, Q. Yuan and co-workers create a versatile scavenger that cleverly avoids such contradictions by integrating the advantages of multiple functional materials. The scavenger exhibits great promise for applications in the next generation of water purification systems.