MCM-48 has good long-range ordering and high thermal stability. It has very attractive application prospects in selective catalysis, macromolecular adsorption separation, and assembly of nanoclusters, and can be used as adsorbents, catalytic materials, and host materials to synthesize new electron transfer photosensitizers, semiconductor materials, carbon fibers, nonlinear optical materials, and quantum clusters. Due to its large pore size, it can effectively adsorb heavy metal ions such as Hg, Pb, Ag, and Cd from wastewater, which have a large plasma radius and are not easily adsorbed by microporous molecular sieves. In the case of high sulfate ion content, low concentrations of chromate and arsenite ions can be removed, and organic pollutants such as benzene, toluene, and volatile organic compounds in wastewater can also be treated.
Application:
Mesoporous silicas are inorganic materials having porous structures and find applications in chromatography, catalysis, drug delivery and imaging.