Removal of Mercury from Aqueous Environments Using Polyurea-Crosslinked Calcium Alginate Aerogels.

Evangelia Sigala, Artemisia Zoi, Grigorios Raptopoulos, Elias Sakellis, Aikaterini Sakellari, Sotirios Karavoltsos, Patrina Paraskevopoulou

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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 1 paper.

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Alginate Aerogels Crosslinked with Isophorone-Based Polyurea: The Missing Link between Rigid Aromatic and Flexible Aliphatic Nanostructured Networks.ACS applied polymer materials · 2026
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Evangelia SigalaInorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece.

Artemisia ZoiInorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece.

Grigorios RaptopoulosInorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece.

Elias SakellisSection of Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15784 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-2361-3382

Aikaterini SakellariLaboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15784 Athens, Greece.

Sotirios KaravoltsosLaboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15784 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3540-123X

Patrina ParaskevopoulouInorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-5166-8946

Funding

European Commission COST Innovators' Grant IG18125 "Technical, commercial and societal innovations on aerogels towards circular economy" (ECO-AERoGELS)General Secretariat for Research and Innovation, Greece GSRISpecial Account for Research Grants, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens SARG

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Abstract

The removal of mercury(II) from aquatic environments using polyurea-crosslinked calcium alginate (X-alginate) aerogels was investigated through batch-type experiments, focusing on low mercury concentrations (50-180 μg·L

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biopolymer aerogelsmercurypolymer-crosslinked aerogelspolyurea-crosslinked alginate aerogelswater decontamination

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PMID40558736

DOI10.3390/gels11060437

PMCPMC12192515

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