“…24 PEI has usually been graed to other matrices such as insoluble polymers, 25 biomass, 26 and cellulose 27 to prevent its dissociation from the surface of the matrices during adsorption operations; it has also been used to construct magnetic hybrid nanomaterials for environmental applications in heavy metal ion removal. [28][29][30] In this work, to synthesize a magnetically separable adsorbent with high stability and adsorption capacity, a new type of magnetic silica material with amine and anhydridefunctionalized layers was fabricated by covalently graing a PEI polymer, followed by anhydride functionalization with 1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic-dianhydride (NTDA) onto the surface of Fe 3 O 4 @SiO 2 , as shown in Scheme 1. The PEI-NTDA layer on Fe 3 O 4 @SiO 2 not only endowed the nal magnetic adsorbents with hydrophilicity, reducing nonspecic adsorption during wastewater treatments, but also provided numerous amine and anhydride groups, which may synergistically coordinate or chelate with heavy metal ions.…”