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ARTICLE IN PRESS WA T E R R E S E A R C H 4 2 ( 2 0 0 8 ) 3 0 8 9 – 3 0 9 7 Available at journal homepage: /locate/watres Selective removal of perfluorooctane sulfonate from aqueous solution using chitosan-based molecularly imprinted polymer adsorbents Qiang Yua,b, Shubo Denga,b,, Gang Yua,b aDepartment of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China bPOPs Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) pollution in aqueous environment is a problem of global Received 14 December 2007 concern. A novel chitosan-based molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) was prepared by Received in revised form crosslinking with epichlorohydrin (ECH) in the presence of PFOS as the template. During 24 February 2008 the preparation of the MIP adsorbents, the template amount and crosslinking agents Accepted 27 February 2008 significantly affected the imprinting effect. The optimized MIP adsorbents had a sorption Available online 5 March 2008 amount of 560 mmol g1 for PFOS, while the sorption amount of the non-imprinted polymer (NIP) was only 258 mmol g1. The sorption behaviors of the MIP adsorbents including Keywords: PFOS sorption kinetics, isotherms, effect of pH, ionic strength and selective sorption were Chitosan investi