“…Poly(vinylbenzyl chloride) (PVBC) is a typical PS-type synthetic polymer that has been employed in recent years for the synthesis of high-efficient adsorbents for the removal of metal ions or organic pollutants from wastewater 30,31 because the abundant chloromethyl groups of the PVBC surface can serve as anchor sites to introduce specic functional groups, such as amino groups (-NH 2 ), hydroxyl groups (-OH), carboxylate (-COOH), and sulfonic groups (-SO 3 H), for their enhanced adsorption capacity and selectivity of polymeric adsorbents. 32 Different approaches have been reported to prepare PVBC-based adsorbents, including amination of PVBC and subsequent alkaline ion exchange to produce polyvinyl benzyl trimethylammonium hydroxide (PVBTAH)-zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8), 33 graing of PVBC beads with primary amines, 34,35 amino methane sulfonic acid, 36 proline, 37 aminocarboxylic acid, 38 quaternization of the PVBC microspheres with ethyl piperazine, 39 and N,N-dimethylethanolamine (DMEA). 40 Among these methods, surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) provides a versatile approach to precisely prepare functional polymer brushes of narrow polydispersity, well-dened architecture, controllable thickness, and composition.…”