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Using chitosan as the carbon source, F127 as the template, and sodium tripolyphosphate as cross-linking agent, a hydrogen bond and ionic bond double-driven mesoporous carbon material was prepared via the sol-hydrothermal method and its formation mechanism was discussed. According to the results from FTIR, Raman, XPS, physical adsorption analyzer, SEM, TEM, and TG-IR, the mesoporous carbon material was formed under the synergistic effect of hydrogen bond and ionic bond has a mesoporous volume of 0.44 cm 3 /g, a BET surface area of 262 m 2 /g, and possesses the ideal unimodal distribution around 2.20 nm. The mesopores are originated from the degradation of hydrophobic segment PPO of F127, and the micropores come from the gases CO 2 , CO, NH 3 , CH 4 , tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether, and 2,6-diisopropylphenyl isocyanate produced during the degradation of prepolymers. The maximum adsorption capacity of this mesoporous carbon for tannic acid (Sips model) at 30 °C is 70.4 mg/g., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest There are no conflicts to declare., (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)

Inorganic-framework molecularly imprinted TiO2/SiO2 nanocomposite (MIP-TiO2/SiO2) was successfully prepared by sol-hydrothermal method using 4-nitrophenol as template. The morphology, structure, optical property, zeta-potential and photocurrent of MIP-TiO2/SiO2 were characterized. The adsorption performance and photocatalytic selectivity were also studied. MIP-TiO2/SiO2 shows higher adsorption capacity and selectivity than the non-imprinted TiO2/SiO2 (NIP-TiO2/SiO2). Kinetics results show that the adsorption equilibrium of 4-nitrophenol on MIP-TiO2/SiO2 is established within 20 min, and the adsorption process obeys the pseudo-second-order model. Moreover, MIP-TiO2/SiO2 can completely degrade 4-nitrophenol within 30 min, while NIP-TiO2/SiO2 takes 110 min. It was found that the MIP-TiO2/SiO2 photocatalyst shows molecular recognition ability, leading to selective adsorption and molecular recognitive photocatalytic degradation of 4-nitrophenol. Furthermore, because of its inorganic framework, MIP-TiO2/SiO2 shows excellent reusability., (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)