National Science Foundation (Nos. CTS-9805118 and CTS-0120204)
A series of organo-ceramic adsorbents have been synthesized by a sol-gel processing technique for metal ion extraction. These adsorbents generally have significantly high metal uptake capacities, good physical-chemica...
Since the pioneering work of Gutsche on calixarenes, many functionalized calixarenes have been prepared. The full bromination of calixarene by a direct process has been regarded as unavailable. Therefore, a more circ...