Fructose and Urea as Precursors for N-/O-Modified Mesoporous Carbon with Enhanced Sorption Capacity for Heavy Metal Ions Weinberger, Christian Haffer, Stefanie Wagner, Thorsten Tiemann, Michael Ordered mesoporous carbon with a high heteroatom (N, O) content was prepared by nanocasting from a melt of a eutectic mixture of fructose and urea (60/40 wt.-%; melting temperature ca. 65 °C). These precursor compounds are cheap and environmentally friendly. The material possesses enhanced pore-wall surface polarity as compared to that of mesoporous carbon prepared by the same technique without urea. This was verified by water sorption analysis. As a result, the heteroatom-modified material shows higher sorption capacity for the uptake of heavy metal ions (Cu2+) from aqueous solution, which may be interesting for potential application in wastewater cleaning. 2014 info:eu-repo/semantics/article doc-type:article text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/25947 Weinberger C, Haffer S, Wagner T, Tiemann M. Fructose and Urea as Precursors for N-/O-Modified Mesoporous Carbon with Enhanced Sorption Capacity for Heavy Metal Ions. <i>European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry</i>. Published online 2014:2787-2792. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201402027">10.1002/ejic.201402027</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/ejic.201402027 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1434-1948 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess