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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Sustainable Room-Temperature Sol-Gel Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles from Sodium Silicate Using Ascorbic Acid and Nonionic Surfactants for Amoxicillin Removal from Water.

Manal A Almalki, Obaid A Alharbi, Sultan K Alharbi, Bandar R Alsehli, Khaled A Thumayri, Khaled M AlMohaimadi, Yassin T H Mehdar, Awadh O AlSuhaimi, Belal H M Hussein

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Manal A AlmalkiChemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Taibah University, Madinah Al-Munawarah 41321, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0009-0002-5734-4165
Obaid A AlharbiWater Management & Treatment Technologies Institute, Sustainability and Environment Sector, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh 12354, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-0309-4706
Sultan K AlharbiChemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Taibah University, Madinah Al-Munawarah 41321, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-8220-4327
Bandar R AlsehliChemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Taibah University, Madinah Al-Munawarah 41321, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-8648-6926
Khaled A ThumayriChemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Taibah University, Madinah Al-Munawarah 41321, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-9341-8080
Khaled M AlMohaimadiMinistry of Education, Directorate General of Education, Madinah Al-Munawarah 42314, Saudi Arabia.
Yassin T H MehdarChemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Taibah University, Madinah Al-Munawarah 41321, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0009-0007-2697-2608
Awadh O AlSuhaimiChemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Taibah University, Madinah Al-Munawarah 41321, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-5319-0141
Belal H M HusseinChemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-9466-1584

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) are promising nanomaterials for many applications, including water remediation, owing to their high surface area, tunable mesoporosity, and modifiable silanol-rich surfaces. However, their conventional synthesis often relies on costly tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), cationic surfactants, organic solvents, and energy-intensive hydrothermal processing. Herein, a facile sustainable room-temperature sol-gel route is reported using inexpensive sodium silicate as the silica source, L-ascorbic acid as a mild biodegradable acid catalyst, and a binary nonionic surfactant system, Triton X-100/polysorbate 80, as the structure-directing template. The method replaces alkoxysilanes and hazardous cationic templates and eliminates external heating. It enables the production of uniform spherical MSNs with a locally ordered mesoporous structure, high specific surface area up to 551.5 m

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amoxicillin adsorptionascorbic acidgreen synthesismesoporous silica nanoparticlesnonionic surfactantspharmaceutical pollutantsroom-temperature sol–gelsodium silicatesustainable nanotechnologywater remediation

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PMCPMC13363401

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