“…However, due to the major disadvantages like high cost, low efficiency and inapplicability to remove a vast range of pollutants, most of them did not receive wide acceptance (Gupta, Agarwal, Singh, & Pathania, 2013). Conversely, adsorption, particularly based on sorbents of both mineral, organic and biological origins such as activated carbons (Hadi et al, 2015;Shen, Ma, Mei, & Zhang, 2010), zeolites (Andrejkovičová et al, 2016;Mudasir, Karelius, Aprilita, & Wahyuni, 2016), clays (Cantuaria, de Almeida Neto, Nascimento, & Vieira, 2016;Ji et al, 2015), silica beads (Arellano, Madani, Huang, & Pendleton, 2016;Ghoul, Bacquet, & Morcellet, 2003), industrial by-products (Bhatnagar, Jain, Minocha, & Singh, 2006;Joshi et al, 2015), agricultural wastes (Hegazi, 2013;Nguyen et al, 2013), biomass (Lingamdinne, Yang, Chang, & Koduru, 2015;Singha & Guleria, 2014) and polymeric materials including organic polymeric resins L. Zhou, Shang, Liu, Huang, & Adesina, 2012), macroporous hypercrosslinked polymers (Azanova & Hradil, 1999;X.…”