Hierarchically imprinted mesoporous silica polymer: An efficient solid-phase extractant for bisphenol A

Improving the site accessibility of molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) is one of the biggest challenges for application of MIP in solid-phase extraction (SPE). Hierarchically imprinted mesoporous silica polymer was prepared with semicovalently bond imprinting methods based on MCM-41 and SBA-15 mesostructures, aiming to improve the site accessibility of MIP and increase the efficiency of molecularly imprinted-SPE. Characterization and performance tests of the obtained products revealed that molecularly imprinted SBA-15 (MIP-SBA-15) not only retained the mesoporous structure of SBA-15, but also displayed excellent selectivity of MIP to the target molecule. As the MIP-SBA-15 were adopted as the adsorbents of solid-phase extraction for detecting bisphenol A in spiked water samples, the recoveries of spiked samples more than 87%, which reveals that the molecularly imprinted SBA-15 were efficient SPE adsorbents for bisphenol A.