{"title":"Poly(glycoluril-formaldehyde) microparticles for remediation of environmental pollutants","authors":"Karuppasamy Karpagalakshmi, Pavitra Rajendran, Sudha Sankaran, Ramesh Prakash, Lakshminarayanan Piramuthu, Senthilmurugan Subbiah, Cheng Yang, Narayanan Selvapalam","doi":"10.1007/s12034-025-03437-y","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Glycolurils are building blocks for cucurbiturils. Poly(glycoluril-formaldehyde) produced microparticles, which were synthesized for the first time by the combination of glycoluril and formaldehyde. Poly(glycoluril-formaldehyde) microparticles were characterized by SEM, XRD and FTIR. The porosity of these microparticles were examined using N<sub>2</sub> absorption – desorption studies, which indicated the non-porous nature of the material. However, these microparticles behaved same as cucurbiturils with respect to dye removal studies. Unlike the cucurbiturils, these microparticles were easy to prepare with no purification steps involved. Furthermore, these microparticles facilitated to remove the environmental pollutants such as dyes, hair dyes, antibiotic drug and inorganic compounds. These microparticles also aided to purify the urine samples and eliminated the RBC cells from the cow urine samples effectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":502,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Materials Science","volume":"48 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin of Materials Science","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12034-025-03437-y","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Glycolurils are building blocks for cucurbiturils. Poly(glycoluril-formaldehyde) produced microparticles, which were synthesized for the first time by the combination of glycoluril and formaldehyde. Poly(glycoluril-formaldehyde) microparticles were characterized by SEM, XRD and FTIR. The porosity of these microparticles were examined using N2 absorption – desorption studies, which indicated the non-porous nature of the material. However, these microparticles behaved same as cucurbiturils with respect to dye removal studies. Unlike the cucurbiturils, these microparticles were easy to prepare with no purification steps involved. Furthermore, these microparticles facilitated to remove the environmental pollutants such as dyes, hair dyes, antibiotic drug and inorganic compounds. These microparticles also aided to purify the urine samples and eliminated the RBC cells from the cow urine samples effectively.
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The Bulletin of Materials Science is a bi-monthly journal being published by the Indian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the Materials Research Society of India and the Indian National Science Academy. The journal publishes original research articles, review articles and rapid communications in all areas of materials science. The journal also publishes from time to time important Conference Symposia/ Proceedings which are of interest to materials scientists. It has an International Advisory Editorial Board and an Editorial Committee. The Bulletin accords high importance to the quality of articles published and to keep at a minimum the processing time of papers submitted for publication.