Defluoridation of water using an economic method is important to combat the issue of
excessive fluoride content (> 1.5 mg/L), which is very detrimental to human health, in
drinking water. In the present work, micelle templated mesoporous material, MCM-41, was
synthesized and explored as an adsorbent for adsorption of fluoride ions from aqueous
media and the process of adsorption was optimized through three levels of Box–Behnken
design (BBD) of response surface methodology (RSM). The data obtained were found to be …

Defluoridation of water using an economic method is important to combat the issue of
excessive fluoride content (> 1.5 mg/L), which is very detrimental to human health, in
drinking water. In the present work, micelle templated mesoporous material, MCM-41, was
synthesized and explored as an adsorbent for adsorption of fluoride ions from aqueous
media and the process of adsorption was optimized through three levels of Box-Behnken
design (BBD) of response surface methodology (RSM). The data obtained were found to be …