Interfacial removal of amoxicillin from water using a dendrimer-functionalized graphene–silica hybrid: mechanistic insights and validation in real samples (opens in new tab)

Pharmaceutical pollutant, such as amoxicillin was selected because it is one of the most widely consumed antibiotics worldwide and is frequently detected in hospital and municipal wastewater. Its high excretion rate in active form and persistence in aquatic environments make it an important target contaminant for water treatment studies. To address this issue, we developed a dendrimer-functionalized graphene quantum dot–mesoporous silica hybrid (GQDs@mSiO2@Dend.G3) as an effective and reusabl...