The case of a sorption process considered here involves a solid phase (sorbent) and a liquid phase (solvent, normally water) containing a dissolved species to be sorbed (sorbate, e.g. metal ions). Due to the higher ‘affinity’ of the sorbent for the sorbate species the latter is attracted into the solid and bound there by different mechanisms. This process takes place until an equilibrium is est...

This study presents the development of a novel calcium-oxide sorbent for carbon dioxide capture. In this work, CaO sorbent was impregnated with different molar percentage of titanium ethoxide. The sorbent prepared with 50 % of titanium ethoxide resulted in the best uptake characteristics for CO2. Compared to others, a higher BET surface area and a larger pore volume were observed. An excellent ...

Amitriptyline hydrochloride is a highly permeable active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). The function of these drugs is to block the reuptake of the neurotransmitters, norepinephrine and serotonin in the central nervous system. The nano-sized Amitriptyline (AT) imprinted polymer particles were synthesized successfully. The nanoparticles were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectros...

To achieve analytical success, it is necessary to develop thorough clean-up procedures to extract analytes from the matrix. Dispersive solid phase extraction (DSPE) has been used as a pretreatment technique for the analysis of several compounds. This technique is based on the dispersion of a solid sorbent in liquid samples in the extraction isolation and clean-up of different analytes from comp...

The aim of the work is to design and synthesize and evaluate the polymer recognition characteristics of molecularly imprinted polymers selective for trans-retinol (R-MIP). The optimal amount of template and methacrylic acid (MAA) functional monomer as well as ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EDMA) acts as the crosslinker was examined toward imprinting process using radical polymerization in chlo...

Activated carbon is known to adsorb aqueous Hg(II). MPAC (magnetic powdered activated carbon) has the potential to remove aqueous Hg to less than 0.2 μg/L while being magnetically recoverable. Magnetic recapture allows simple sorbent separation from the waste stream while an isolated waste potentially allows for mercury recycling. MPAC Hg-removal performance is verified by mercury mass balance,...

L-Phenylalanine (L-Phe) and D-Phenylalanine (D-Phe) imprinted poly [(acrylonitrile)-co-(acrylic acid)] membranes were prepared by wet phase inversion method for chiral separation. The chiral separation ability of molecularly imprinted copolymer membranes towards the underivatized D,L-Phe aqueous mixture was evaluated by ultrafiltration experiment. The novel membranes show continuous permselecti...

Imprinted genes exhibit silencing of one of the parental alleles during embryonic development. In a previous study imprinted genes were found to have reduced intron content relative to a non-imprinted control set (Hurst et al., 1996). However, due to the small sample size, it was not possible to analyse the source of this effect. Here, we re-investigate this observation using larger datasets of...