Development of sulfamethoxazole-imprinted polymers for the selective extraction from waters

• Published in: Journal of hazardous materials Vol. 170; no. 2; pp. 722 - 728
• Main Authors: Valtchev, Martin, Palm, Barbara S., Schiller, Marion, Steinfeld, Ute
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier B.V 30.10.2009; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adsorbents; Adsorption; Anti-Bacterial Agents - chemistry; Applied sciences; Biological and physicochemical phenomena; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Contaminants; Cross-Linking Reagents; Exact sciences and technology; Extraction; General purification processes; Materials selection; Medical Waste Disposal; Methanol; Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP); Natural water pollution; Pollutant removal; Pollutants; Pollution; Polymers; Polymers - chemistry; Solid phase extraction; Solutions; Solvents; Sulfamethoxazole; Sulfamethoxazole - chemistry; Thermodynamics; Uptakes; Waste water; Wastewater; Wastewaters; Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis; Water Pollution, Chemical - prevention & control; Water treatment and pollution; Solid phase extraction; Sulfamethoxazole; Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP); Pollutant removal; Wastewater; Selective extraction; Pollutant; Antibiotic; Activated carbon; Water pollution; Uptake; Waste water; Molecularly imprinted polymer(MIP)
• ISSN: 0304-3894; 1873-3336
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.05.007

Sulfamethoxazole (SMX) is an antibiotic of growing environmental concern. As specific filter material for the extraction of SMX from waters, a series of SMX-imprinted polymers have been synthesised varying their composition parameters, and their efficiency to selectively remove the contaminant SMX from complex polluted water was tested. Most of the developed materials exhibited an excellent uptake of the target pollutant SMX of more than 80% or even 90% and effective separation from selected easily degradable accompanying substances even in complex wastewater mixtures. All the results for SMX uptake and release were compared to the commonly used adsorbent activated carbon (AC).