“…Grafting of 4-VP onto the polyethylene terephthalate fiber, divinylbenzene copolymer, and vinyltriethoxysilane-cellulose has been found to enhance the removal of Cr(VI) and U(VI). As to the difficulty in the separation of those nano-adsorbents from the treated water, introducing magnetism to the adsorbents or substrates has been proved to facilitate the separation process. − Silicates, such as magnesium silicate, aluminum silicate, nickel silicate, and so forth, are promising adsorbent substrates due to large surface area and richness in surface hydroxyl groups. − Introducing nickel, a known ferromagnetic metal, to the Ni 3 Si 2 O 5 (OH) 4 NTs substrate by controlled reduction would endow the substrate with magnetism.…”