A novel carboxylic-functional indole-based aerogel for highly effective removal of heavy metals from aqueous solution via synergistic effects of face-point and point-point interactions

Li Yang; Peng Yang; Yuanchi Ma; Guanjun Chang

doi:10.1039/c9ra04467a

A novel carboxylic-functional indole-based aerogel for highly effective removal of heavy metals from aqueous solution via synergistic effects of face-point and point-point interactions

RSC Adv. 2019 Aug 12;9(43):24875-24879. doi: 10.1039/c9ra04467a. eCollection 2019 Aug 8.

Authors

Li Yang^{1

2}, Peng Yang¹, Yuanchi Ma², Guanjun Chang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory for Environment-friendly Energy Materials, School of Material Science and Engineering, National Engineering Technology Center for Insulation Materials, Southwest University of Science and Technology Mianyang 621010 P. R. China gjchang@mail.ustc.edu.cn.
² Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104 USA.

Abstract

A new type of carboxylic-functional indole-based aerogel (CHIFA) has been successfully prepared via a facile sol-gel technology, which possessed a highly effective removal of heavy metals from aqueous solution through the synergistic effects of face-point and point-point interactions.