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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

The Innovation Comes from the Sea: Chitosan and Alginate Hybrid Gels and Films as Sustainable Materials for Wastewater Remediation.

Maria Laura Tummino, Giuliana Magnacca, Dafne Cimino, Enzo Laurenti, Roberto Nisticò

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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5 authors.

Maria Laura TumminoDepartment of Chemistry, Università degli studi di Torino, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1869-2602
Giuliana MagnaccaDepartment of Chemistry, Università degli studi di Torino, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3798-5232
Dafne CiminoDepartment of Chemistry, Università degli studi di Torino, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6530-9303
Enzo LaurentiDepartment of Chemistry, Università degli studi di Torino, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7363-4002
Roberto NisticòDepartment of Applied Science and Technology DISAT, Polytechnic of Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8986-5542

Funding

Horizon 2020 645551
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The growing utilization of renewable and residual biomasses for environmental preservation and remediation are important goals to be pursued to minimize the environmental impact of human activities. In this paper, sodium alginate (derived from brown algae) was crosslinked using chitosan (mainly derived from the exoskeleton of crustaceans) in the presence of biowaste-derived substances isolated from green compost (BBS-GC), to produce hydrogels and dried films. The obtained materials were tested as adsorbents for wastewater remediation. To this purpose, gels were characterized using a multi-analytical approach and used as active substrates for the removal of three differently-charged molecules, chosen as model pollutants: crystal violet, rhodamine B, and orange II. The effectiveness of the gel formulations was demonstrated and attributed to the variety of active functionalities introduced by the different precursors, the structural factors and the peculiar physicochemical properties of the resulting materials.

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Membranes, ArtificialAlginatesBiocompatible MaterialsChitosanCompostingEnvironmental Restoration and RemediationGreen Chemistry TechnologyHumansHydrogelsInventionsMicroscopy, Electron, ScanningMolecular StructurePhaeophyceaeSeawaterWaste ManagementWastewaterAlginatesBiocompatible MaterialsChitosanHydrogelsMembranes, ArtificialWastewateralginatebiopolymersbiowaste valorisationchitosanhydrogelswastewater remediation

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PMID31952241
PMCPMC7013933

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