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ArticleGels (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Newly Designed Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposite Membrane for Simultaneous Cr and Mn Speciation in Waters.

Penka Vasileva, Irina Karadjova

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Article in Gels (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Penka VasilevaFaculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", 1, J. Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000-0003-3131-0872
Irina KaradjovaFaculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", 1, J. Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000-0001-6750-1836

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A sol-gel approach was used to prepare a thin hydrogel membrane based on an organic-inorganic polymer matrix embedded with pre-synthesized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). The organic polymers utilized were poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and poly(ethylene oxide) 400 (PEO) while tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) served as a precursor for the inorganic silica polymer. AuNPs were synthesized using D-glucose as a reducing agent and starch as a capping agent. A mixture of PVA, PEO, pre-hydrolyzed TEOS, and AuNP dispersions was cast and dried at 50 °C to obtain the hybrid hydrogel membrane. The structure, morphology, and optical properties of the nanocomposite membrane were analyzed using TEM, SEM, XRD, and UV-Vis spectroscopy. The newly designed hybrid hydrogel membrane was utilized as an efficient sorbent for the simultaneous speciation analysis of valence species of chromium and manganese in water samples via solid-phase extraction. This study revealed that Cr(III) and Mn(II) could be simultaneously adsorbed onto the PVA/PEO/SiO

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chromium (III and VI)gold nanoparticleshybrid hydrogel nanocomposite membranemanganese (II and VII)polyvinyl alcoholsilicaspeciationtap and wastewaters

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PMID40136910
PMCPMC11942063

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