The present application relates to a polymerizable composition comprising: (a) a first monomer of Formula (I): (I) wherein R as described herein and (b) a second monomer of Formula (II): (II) The present application also relates to one or more adsorbent beads produced by polymerizing the polymerizable composition and to a method for heparin recovery using the adsorbent beads.

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In various embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to core-shell particles that comprise a porous hybrid organic-inorganic shell disposed on a surface-modified non-porous polymer particle core. In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to chromatographic separation devices that comprise such core-shell particles. In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to chromatographic methods that comprise: (a) loading a sample onto a chromatographic column comprising such core-shell particles and (b) flowing a mobile phase through the column.

A product, a method of producing and a method of using are disclosed. The product comprises attapulgite that has been thermally activated. The product may have a permeability in oil in the range of 0.04-3 darcy and may have a surface area of 45-140 m.sup.2/g. The method of producing may comprise thermally activating a material that includes attapulgite by heating the material at a temperature in the range of 300 to 900° C. The method of decolorizing may include contacting for a contact time an oil with the bleaching clay product that comprises attapulgite that has been thermally activated, and separating the bleaching clay product from the oil to recover a decolorized oil that has a lower red color than the oil had prior to the contacting, and removing phosphorus and metals for hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO)/renewable diesel feedstock pretreatment.

A method for improving the hue of recycled BHET is provided. The method includes: providing a recycled polyester fabric; using a chemical de-polymerization liquid to chemically depolymerize the recycled polyester fabric to form a de-polymerization product; distilling out the chemical de-polymerization liquid from the de-polymerization product by evaporation; dissolving the BHET in water to form a aqueous phase liquid; adding an activated carbon material to the aqueous phase liquid to adsorb impurities; and cooling the aqueous phase liquid to crystallize the BHET from the aqueous phase liquid to obtain a recycled BHET.

In various embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to organic polymer core-shell particles that comprise a non-porous organic polymer core (i.e., having a pore volume of less than 0.1 cc/g) and a porous organic polymer shell (i.e., having a pore volume of greater than 0.1 cc/g), in which the porous organic polymer shell has a pore size ranging from 100 Å to 3000 Å. In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to chromatographic separation devices that comprise such organic polymer core-shell particles. In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to chromatographic methods that comprise: (a) loading a sample onto a chromatographic column comprising such organic polymer core-shell particles and (b) flowing a mobile phase through the column.

A filter apparatus for removing small molecule chemotherapy agents from blood is provided. The filter apparatus comprises a housing with an extraction media comprised of polymer coated carbon cores. Also provided are methods of treating a subject with cancer of an organ or region comprising administering a chemotherapeutic agent to the organ or region, collecting blood laded with chemotherapeutic agent from the isolated organ, filtering the blood laden with chemotherapeutic agent to reduce the chemotherapeutic agent in the blood and returning the blood to the subject.

The invention relates to a method for the production of activated carbon, in particular particulate activated carbon, having an increased mesopore and/or macropore volume fraction, preferably having an increased mesopore volume fraction.

A monolithic organic porous ion exchanger having a continuous skeleton and continuous pores, wherein the continuous skeleton is formed of an organic polymer being a hydrolysate of a crosslinked polymer of a (meth)acrylic acid ester and divinylbenzene, the organic polymer having any one or both of a —COOH group and a —COONa group as ion-exchange groups, the continuous skeleton has a thickness of 0.1 to 100 μm, the continuous pores have an average diameter of 1.0 to 1000 μm, the monolithic organic porous ion exchanger has a total pore volume of 0.5 to 50.0 mL/g, and has a total ion-exchange capacity of the —COOH group and the —COONa group per weight in a dry state of 4.0 mg equivalent/g or more.

In general, the present disclosure is directed to a soyhull-based activated carbon. The soyhull-based activated carbon comprises a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area of from about 750 m.sup.2/g to about 2900 m.sup.2/g and a micropore volume of from about 0.50 cm.sup.3/g to about 1.2 cm.sup.3/g.

The present invention provides novel chromatographic materials, e.g., for chromatographic separations, processes for their preparation and separations devices containing the chromatographic materials. The preparation of the inorganic/organic hybrid materials of the invention wherein a surrounding material is condensed on a superficially porous hybrid core material will allow for families of different hybrid packing materials to be prepared from a single core hybrid material. Differences in hydrophobicity, ion-exchange capacity, chemical stability, surface charge or silanol activity of the surrounding material may be used for unique chromatographic separations of small molecules, carbohydrates, antibodies, whole proteins, peptides, and/or DNA.