Highly Efficient Adsorption of Aqueous Pb(II) with Mesoporous Metal-Organic Framework-5: An Equilibrium and Kinetic Study

Table 3

Comparison of maximum adsorption capacity of Pb(II) using different materials.

Adsorbent	Capacity (mg/g)	Reference
Amino-functionalized MNPs	40.10	Hao et al. 2012 [27]
Magnetic nanoadsorbents	36.00	Nassar 2010 [28]
Magnetic nanocomposite beads-chitosan	63.33	Tran et al. 2010 [29]
Hydroxyapatite	1429	Yan et al. 2014 [11]
Biochar-alginate capsule	263.15	Do and Lee 2013 [12]
Chitosan/fe-hydroxyapatite	596.7	Saber-Samandari et al. 2014 [13]
Dry desulfurization slag	130.2	Wu et al. 2014 [9]
MOF-5	658.50	This study