How to remove Surfactants i.e. CTAB from the surface of Fe3O4@SiO2@CTAB. If i will use acetone as reflux condition ? or treated with THF in HCl ?

11 March 2021 1 313 Report

Frank T. Edelmann

Dear Sana Kanwal thank you for your interesting technical question. For a detailed experimental procedure please see the following useful article entitled

Novel mesoporous Fe3O4/SiO2/CTAB–SiO2 as an effective adsorbent for the removal of amoxicillin and tetracycline from water

Article Novel mesoporous Fe3O4/SiO2/CTAB–SiO2 as an effective adsorb...

This paper is freely available as public full text on ResearchGate.

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