In this, polyacrylamide-stannic arsenate nanocomposite (PA/SANC) ion exchanger has been synthesized using sol-gel technique. Different instrumental techniques were employed to characterize the PA/SANC. XRD results illustrate semicrystalline nature of material. TEM images confirmed that the size of PA/SANC was in nano-range. Nanocomposite have superior physicochemical properties including ion exchange capacity, elution behavior, effect of eluent concentration, distribution coefficient (K d), effect of temperature and pH study. PA/SANC have 0.92 meq/g value of ion exchange capacity as compared to inorganic part (0.39 meq/g). On the basis of K d values, it has been found that nanocomposite was highly selective for Mg(II) ions (K d = 222.90). PA/SANC was also explored for binary separation of different metal pairs. PA/SANC degraded 86.22% of sunset yellow under 3 h of solar exposure.