“…The reported adsorbents include carbons activated by KOH, HNO 3 H 3 PO 4 and ZnCl 2 , 17 olive wood biosorbents, 18 UiO-66-NH 2 , 19 glycidyl methacrylate graed cotton cellulose, 20 yellow bentonite, 21 XAD-4 resin, 22 activated carbon bers, 23 layered double hydroxides and their calcined products, 24 carbon nanospheres, 25 date seeds 26 and active carbon. 27 In recent years, ionic liquid-modied silicas (IL-silicas) as adsorbents have been widely used to remove Cu(II), Fe(III), Mn (II) and Ni(II), 28 Pb(II), [29][30][31] Cr(III,VI), [32][33][34] lanthanides and scandium ions, 35 oxymatrine, 36 bovine serum albumin, 37 racemic amino acids, 28 thiophenic sulfur compounds, 38 anionic dye, 39,40 dibenzothiophene 41 and phenolic compounds (4-chlorophenol, 42 polyphenols, 43 phenolic acids, 44 naphthols, 45 bisphenol A 46 and 2,4-DNP [47][48][49] ). To elucidate the relation between the structure of IL-silicas and their adsorption performance for phenolic compounds, a series of IL-silicas were designed by varying substituents, the functional groups of the imidazolium ring, counter ions and silane-coupling agents.…”