Investigating Methylene Blue Removal from Aqueous Solution by Cysteine-Functionalized Mesoporous Silica

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Material</td><td class="align_center">BET surface area (m<sup>2</sup>·g<sup>−1</sup>)</td><td class="align_center">Pore volume (cm<sup>3</sup>·g<sup>−1</sup>)</td><td class="align_center">Average pore size (nm)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Bare MSNs</td><td class="align_center">986</td><td class="align_center">1.26</td><td class="align_center">6</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">MSN-GPTS</td><td class="align_center">743</td><td class="align_center">0.91</td><td class="align_center">5</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">MSN-Cys</td><td class="align_center">652</td><td class="align_center">0.83</td><td class="align_center">5</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Physiochemical data obtained for bare MSNs, MSN-GPTS, and MSN-Cys.</div>

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