A significant number of biosorption studies on the removal of heavy metal from aqueous
solutions have been conducted worldwide. Nearly all of them have been directed towards …

The release of heavy metals into the environment, mainly as a consequence of
anthropogenic activities, constitutes a worldwide environmental pollution problem. Unlike …

The removal of heavy metals from water is crucial for human health and the environment,
and finding an appropriate adsorption material to achieve this goal is extremely desirable. In …

In the context of developing the circular economy that enables a more sustainable use of the
available resources and minimum waste generation, marine macroalgae have attracted the …

In the present work, the influence of the competitive effect of inorganic ligands (carbonates,
chlorides, fluorides, phosphates, nitrates and sulphates), which can be present in real multi …

Sorbent prepared from moss Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus has been used for obtaining
quantitative data of the cobalt and strontium sorption from single and binary aqueous CoCl2 …

Biosorption is a suitable heavy metal remediation technique for the treatment of aqueous
effluents of large volume and low pollutant concentration. However, today industrial …

A heavy-metal resistant bacterial consortium was obtained from a contaminated river in São
Paulo, Brazil and utilized for the design of a fixed-bed column for the removal of copper …

A series of batch lab-scale experiments were performed to investigate the performance of
dead phosphorylated algal biomass of Spirogyra species for the bioadsorption of Cu $^{+ 2} …

The marine algae Sargassum filipendula was collected from São Paulo seashore (Brazil)
and submitted to treatment with acid. The biosorption mechanisms of Cu2+ and Ni2+ ions …