Chitosan-based adsorbents have attracted increasing attention in water and wastewater
treatment in recent years due to its abundance and low price, as well as rich amino and …

Accessibility to clean drinking water often remains a crucial task at times. Among other water
pollutants, arsenic is considered a more lethal contaminant and has become a serious threat …

Carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCTS) with active hydroxyl and amino groups is easily modified
for chelating and capturing heavy metal, thus showing great potential for application in …

Wastewater treatment is still a critical issue all over the world. Among examined methods for
the decontamination of wastewaters, adsorption is a promising, cheap, environmentally …

Globally, millions of people have no access to clean drinking water and are either striving for
that or oppressed to intake polluted water. Arsenic is considered one of the most hazardous …

Abstract Zirconium (IV)-loaded chitosan/Fe 3 O 4/graphene oxide (Zr-CMGO) was fabricated
and applied to remove alizarin red (AR) from aqueous solution. Characterizations of Zr …

Dual-function chitosan-based flocculants with chelation and flocculation capacity,
carboxylated chitosan-graft-polyacrylamide (PCA), carboxylated chitosan-graft …

Carboxylated chitosan (CPCTS) is used as substrates in the design and synthesis of CPCTS-
based flocculants through UV-initiated polymerization techniques. The synthesized …

In this study, chitosan (Ch) is adapted via green methodology including sonication induced
crosslinking with different weight ratios of erythritol (Er) from (Ch-Er) 1 to (Ch-Er) 4. The …

In order to effectively remove the dissolved heavy metals and the heavy metals on the
colloidal particles during the flocculation process, a novel dual-functional chitosan flocculant …