“…Adsorption is a well-established process and its efficiency, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness for the removal of several types of contaminants is well-documented (Abdel Ghafar et al, 2020;Ghafar et al, 2020;Nour et al, 2021;Radwan, Abdel-Aty, et al, 2020;Radwan, El-Naggar, et al, 2021;Varsha et al, 2022). Recently adsorption attracted the researchers' attention as a potential treatment process for ECs (Chang et al, 2022;Tang et al, 2022). Figure S3a Several mechanisms such as pore-filling or partition diffusion, electrostatic interaction, hydrophobic interaction, ion exchange, Hbonding, and π-π interactions can be involved in the adsorption of ECs (Nayyar et al, 2022).…”