Synthesis of FeO@Phoslock composites and the application in adsorption of phosphate from aqueous solution.

Assisted with an organosilane, FeO@Phoslock composites with different constituents were synthesized to separate phosphate from aqueous solution. The experimental adsorption data of kinetics and isothermal studies by the composites were well fitted by pseudo-second order and Freundlich models, respectively, suggesting the chemical and heterogeneous adsorption process, i.e.