“…This result implies that the highly crystalline phase of HAP may be successfully embedded on the surface of IBC (Jung et al, 2019). Considering to a possible complexation between some cations (e.g., Ca 2+ , Mg 2+ , and Fe 3+ ) and organic pollutants (Choi et al, 2020; Gurav, Bhatia, Choi, et al, 2021; Song et al, 2021), it is speculated that CaCO 3 , Ca 10 (PO 4 ) 6 (OH) 2 , CaNaPO 4 may influence kaempf adsorption on IBC or HAP/IBC. Moreover, FTIR spectra of IBC before adsorption contained broad peaks at 3450, 1630, 1400, and 1123 cm −1 , which were attributed to the stretching vibrations of the OH, aromatic conjugated CO/CC, anti‐symmetric COO, and CO bonds, respectively (Kim et al, 2013; Tong et al, 2011; Xu et al, 2008) (Figure 2a).…”