Nature Environment and Pollution Technology (Jun 2020)

Synthesis of Molecularly Imprinting Polymers for the Removal of Xylenol Orange from Water

  • Showkat Ahmad Bhawani, Nur Anati Bazilah Daud, Salma Bakhtiar, Rachel Marcela Roland , Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.46488/NEPT.2020.v19i02.040
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 2
pp. 825 – 830

Abstract

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The molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) were prepared by using the non-covalent approach. In the polymerization process, xylenol orange was used as a template (T), acrylic acid as a functional monomer (M), divinylbenzene as a cross-linker (CL) and 2,2’-azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as an initiator and microemulsion as a solvent. The synthesized polymers were characterized by using FTIR and SEM micrograph. The batch binding analysis was used to evaluate the rebinding efficiency of imprinted polymers. The highest rebinding efficiency was obtained from the MIP-R2 (0.1:0.6:2, T:M:CL). The selected MIP-R2 was used for the removal of xylenol orange from the water sample and have shown removal efficiency of about 80%.