Chitosan is a kind of natural polysaccharide biomass with the second highest content in
nature after cellulose, which has good biological properties such as biocompatibility …

Nowadays, pollution has become the main bottleneck towards sustainable technological
development due to its detrimental implications in human and ecosystem health. Removal of …

The serious environmental pollution and ecological risks caused by dyeing wastewater and
waste reed is the urgent problem to be solved. Here, a multifunctional biomass-based …

Kaolin clay (KN) was employed as an inorganic filler to modify a cross-linked chitosan-
glyoxal as Schiff's-based chitosan composite derivative (CTS-GLY). The resulting (CTS …

Chitosan is a biopolymer originating from renewable resources, with great properties which
make it an attractive candidate for plenty of applications of contemporary interest. By …

Biomass-derived materials with multiple features are seldom reported so far. Herein, new
chitosan (CS) sponges with complementary functions for point-of-use healthcare …

In this study, an innovative approach is followed to synthesize graft copolymerized chitosan
with acetylacetone (AA-g-CS) through free-radical induced grafting. Afterwards, AA-g-CS …

Designing of economically feasible and recyclable polysaccharide-based materials with
thiourea functional groups for removal of specific metal ions such as Ag (I), Au (I), Pb (II) or …

A new sorbent (TcTDG, pyrimidine derivative, with high content of N-based reactive groups
and S-based sites) was successfully synthesized by the polycondensation of thiocarbazide …

In this experimental study, the use of 5-hydroxymethyl-furfural (HMF) organic compound as a
grafting agent to chitosan natural polymer (CS) was examined. One optimized chitosan …