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Natasha, Khan A, Rahman UU, Sadaf, Yaseen M, Abumousa RA, Khattak R, Rehman N, Bououdina M, Humayun M. Effective Removal of Nile Blue Dye from Wastewater using Silver-Decorated Reduced Graphene Oxide. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:19461-19480. [PMID: 38708276 PMCID: PMC11064184 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c00973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Revised: 04/06/2024] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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Nile blue (NB) dye is a highly toxic substance that when discharged into sewage presents a significant risk to the environment and human health. Carbon-based nanomaterials, such as graphene oxide (GO), reduced graphene oxide (rGO), and their nanocomposites, offer considerable potential for eliminating hazardous pollutants from aqueous systems. In this study, we have successfully fabricated bare GO and rGO, and then, the rGO was decorated with silver (Ag) nanoparticles to develop the Ag-rGO composite. The as-prepared materials were characterized by various techniques, such as UV-visible (UV-vis) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopies, X-ray diffraction (XRD), energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to elucidate their structure, morphology, and chemical composition. The pollutant removal performance of the as-prepared materials was evaluated through a batch approach under the effect of various experimental variables for removal of NB dye from wastewater. As obvious, the Ag-rGO composite revealed exceptional performance for NB dye removal from wastewater, with a maximum removal percentage of 94% within 60 min, which is remarkably higher than those of the rGO (i.e., 59%) and GO (i.e., 22%), under the same experimental conditions. The adsorption data was analyzed with thermodynamics, isotherms, and kinetics models to better understand the physicochemical mechanisms driving the effective removal of the NB dye. The results reveal that Ag-rGO nanocomposite exhibit excellent adsorption ability as well as favorable thermodynamic and kinetic parameters for NB dye removal. It was also found that the presence of light enhanced the adsorptive removal of NB while using Ag-rGO as an adsorbent. The present study noted significant reusability of the Ag-rGO nanocomposite, likely due to minimal Ag leaching and/or the robust stability of the Ag-rGO. It is suggested that Ag-rGO-based hybrid materials could serve as promising candidates for efficiently adsorbing and catalytically removing various toxic pollutants from wastewater.
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- Natasha
- Department
of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University
Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University
Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
- Energy,
Water and Environment Lab, College of Humanities and Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University
Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University
Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University
Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Energy,
Water and Environment Lab, College of Humanities and Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Chemistry, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women
University Avenue, Larama Charsadda Road Peshawar, Peshawar 00384,Pakistan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal Dir(U), Dir Upper 18000,Pakistan
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- Energy,
Water and Environment Lab, College of Humanities and Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia
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- Energy,
Water and Environment Lab, College of Humanities and Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia
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Mishra PM, Devi AP. Current scenario on biogenic synthesis of metal oxide nanocomposites using plant specimens and their application towards treatment of wastewater. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:108512-108524. [PMID: 37775638 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-29989-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/01/2023]
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Various industries such as textile, leather, and paper mills discharge huge amount of industrial effluents to the environment containing unconsumed dyes and toxic heavy metal ions which are very harmful and carcinogenic in nature. The increase in water pollution is adversely impacting the ecosystems and human health. Now, it has become a great challenge to treat the contaminated water/wastewater. Photocatalysis and adsorption are the two techniques gaining significant attention for the removal of toxic pollutants from wastewater effectively. In this regard, metal oxide-based nanomaterials and their composites have gained profound attention in photocatalytic degradation as well as adsorptive removal of toxic pollutants from water due to their chemical reactivity, higher surface area, regeneration efficiency, ample adsorption sites, intriguing photocatalytic activity, and cost-effectiveness. However, the conventional methods, employed to synthesize these metal oxide nanocomposites, involve the use of toxic chemicals which again produce secondary pollutants. Among all biological materials, the use of plant biomolecules is found to be the most effective way to synthesize stable nanomaterials, as the phytoconstituents of plants act as reducing, capping, and stabilizing agent. It is experimentally proved that bio-based nanocomposites have tremendous potential towards the degradation of environmental pollutants. Thus, there is a great need to work on the synthesis of some novel plant-based metal oxide nanocomposites and their applications in the field of water treatment. This review mainly discusses the metal oxide nanocomposites synthesized using plant specimens and their various applications towards treatment of water/wastewater.
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- Pravat Manjari Mishra
- Environment & Sustainability Department, CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751013, India.
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- Environment & Sustainability Department, CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751013, India
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Cheng XL, Fu TR, Zhang DF, Xiong JH, Yang WY, Du J. Biomass-assisted fabrication of rGO-AuNPs as surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates for in-situ monitoring methylene blue degradation. Anal Biochem 2023; 667:115087. [PMID: 36858251 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2023.115087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2022] [Revised: 02/12/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 03/02/2023]
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Reduced graphene oxide-gold nanoparticles nanocomposites (rGO-AuNPs) with high surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) activity was created by biomass-assisted green synthesis with Lilium casa blanca petals biomass for the first time, and its application for methylene blue (MB) degradation was explored through in-situ monitoring. Lilium casa blanca petals biomass was used as a reducing agent to reduce GO and chloroauric acid successively when carrying out rGO-AuNPs in-situ synthesis while it also acted as a capping agent. The produced rGO had oxygen-containing functional groups which had an outstanding performance in enhancing the SERS effect. Characterization results confirmed that the AuNPs were grafted onto the rGO sheet, and the mechanism study showed that total flavonoids in Lilium casa blanca petals biomass were the main biological compounds involved in the reduction. rGO-AuNPs had a high Raman enhancement factor (EF) which could reach 3.88 × 107. The synthesized nanocomposite also had a good catalytic activity that could be employed as catalyst in MB degradation, and it could complete degradation within 15min. The reaction rate increased linearly with the amount of rGO-AuNPs, and the degradation could be in-situ monitored both by UV and SERS.
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- Xin-Lei Cheng
- College of Food Science & Engineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, Jiangxi, China
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- College of Food Science & Engineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, Jiangxi, China
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- College of Food Science & Engineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, Jiangxi, China
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- College of Food Science & Engineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, Jiangxi, China; Agricultural Products Processing and Quality Control Engineering Laboratory of Jiangxi, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, China
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- College of Food Science & Engineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, Jiangxi, China; Agricultural Products Processing and Quality Control Engineering Laboratory of Jiangxi, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, China.
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- College of Food Science & Engineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, Jiangxi, China; Agricultural Products Processing and Quality Control Engineering Laboratory of Jiangxi, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, China.
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Vidovix TB, Quesada HB, Bergamasco R, Vieira MF, Vieira AMS. Adsorption of Safranin-O dye by copper oxide nanoparticles synthesized from Punica granatum leaf extract. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2022; 43:3047-3063. [PMID: 33826464 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2021.1914180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The development of new technologies for water and wastewater treatment is a growing need due to the occurrence of micropollutants, such as dyes, in water resources. In this sense, green-synthesized nanoparticles are being extensively studied, due to their low cost, non-toxicity, and high efficiency in adsorption processes. Thus, the present study reports the green synthesis of copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO-NP), obtained from pomegranate (Punica granatum) leaf extract, employed for the removal of Safranin-O (SO) dye. CuO-NP was characterized by physicochemical analysis. These analyzes suggested that the redox process occurred efficiently. Also, the material presented interesting elements for the removal of cationic dyes such as negative surface charge, high specific surface area, and predominance of mesopores. The kinetic data fitted the pseudo-second-order model, reaching equilibrium in 480 min. The equilibrium study resulted in a maximum adsorption capacity of 189.54 mg g-1 at 298 K and the experimental data best fitted the Langmuir model. The effect of pH and ionic strength did not present significant changes, which demonstrates an advantage of this adsorbent over other materials. The regeneration study allowed to verify the possibility of reuse CuO-NP, since after 4 cycles the adsorption capacity was 44% of the initial value. Considering the results found, CuO-NP has a high potential for applicability in the treatment of water contaminated by dyes.
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Lee KH, Lee SK, Lee J, Kim S, Kim SW, Park C, Yoo HY. Energy-efficient glucose recovery from chestnut shell by optimization of NaOH pretreatment at room temperature and application to bioethanol production. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2022; 208:112710. [PMID: 35026183 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.112710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2021] [Revised: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Biofuel policies are currently being implemented globally to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The recent European regulation, Renewable Energy Directive (RED) II, states that renewable resources should be used as raw materials. In this study, chestnut shell (CNS), a food processing residue, was utilized as a feedstock for bioethanol production. Statistical optimization was performed to improve biomass-to-glucose conversion (BtG) from the CNS. In order to design an energy-efficient process, the pretreatment was fixed at room temperature in the numerical optimization. The optimal conditions derived from the predicted model are as follows: temperature of 25 °C, reaction time of 2.8 h, and NaOH concentration of 1.9% (w/w). Under optimal conditions, both predicted and experimental BtG were 31.0%, while BtG was approximately 3.3-fold improved compared to the control group (without pretreatment). The recovered glucose was utilized for bioethanol fermentation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae K35 and the ethanol yield was achieved to be 98%. Finally, according to the mass balance based on 1000 g CNS, glucose of 310 g can be recovered by the pretreatment; the bioethanol production was approximately 155 g. This strategy suggests a direction to utilize CNS as a potential feedstock for biorefinery through the design of an economical and energy-efficient pretreatment process by lowering the reaction temperature to room temperature.
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- Kang Hyun Lee
- Department of Biotechnology, Sangmyung University, 20 Hongjimun 2-Gil, Jongno-Gu, Seoul, 03016, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, 145 Anam-Ro, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Sangmyung University, 20 Hongjimun 2-Gil, Jongno-Gu, Seoul, 03016, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Sangmyung University, 20 Hongjimun 2-Gil, Jongno-Gu, Seoul, 03016, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, 145 Anam-Ro, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 20 Kwangwoon-Ro, Nowon-Gu, Seoul, 01897, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Sangmyung University, 20 Hongjimun 2-Gil, Jongno-Gu, Seoul, 03016, Republic of Korea.
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Tan K, Foo K. Facile synthesis of MIL-100 metal-organic framework via heatless technique for the adsorptive treatment of cationic and anionic pollutants. ARAB J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.arabjc.2021.103359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Removal of Pharmaceuticals from Water by Adsorption and Advanced Oxidation Processes: State of the Art and Trends. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/app11146659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Pharmaceutical products have become a necessary part of life. Several studies have demonstrated that indirect exposure of humans to pharmaceuticals through the water could cause negative effects. Raw sewage and wastewater effluents are the major sources of pharmaceuticals found in surface waters and drinking water. Therefore, it is important to consider and characterize the efficiency of pharmaceutical removal during wastewater and drinking-water treatment processes. Various treatment options have been investigated for the removal/reduction of drugs (e.g., antibiotics, NSAIDs, analgesics) using conventional or biological treatments, such as activated sludge processes or bio-filtration, respectively. The efficiency of these processes ranges from 20–90%. Comparatively, advanced wastewater treatment processes, such as reverse osmosis, ozonation and advanced oxidation technologies, can achieve higher removal rates for drugs. Pharmaceuticals and their metabolites undergo natural attenuation by adsorption and solar oxidation. Therefore, pharmaceuticals in water sources even at trace concentrations would have undergone removal through biological processes and, if applicable, combined adsorption and photocatalytic degradation wastewater treatment processes. This review provides an overview of the conventional and advanced technologies for the removal of pharmaceutical compounds from water sources. It also sheds light on the key points behind adsorption and photocatalysis.
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Mondal S, Maurya BL, Majumder SK. Lead adsorption in a serpentine millichannel‐based packed‐bed device: Effect of hydrodynamics and mixing characteristics. AIChE J 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.17238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Somen Mondal
- Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati India
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Mondal S, Majumder SK. Cationic surfactant-aided surface modification of the activated carbon-based materials for the enhancement of phenol adsorption-capacity determined by ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy. J DISPER SCI TECHNOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/01932691.2021.1884089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Somen Mondal
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India
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Patel S, Mondal S, Majumder SK, Das P, Ghosh P. Treatment of a Pharmaceutical Industrial Effluent by a Hybrid Process of Advanced Oxidation and Adsorption. ACS OMEGA 2020; 5:32305-32317. [PMID: 33376867 PMCID: PMC7758896 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c04139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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In the present study, a combined approach of ozone-based advanced oxidation and adsorption by activated char was employed for the treatment of a pharmaceutical industrial effluent. Ozone is a selective oxidant, but the addition of H2O2 generated in situ hydroxyl radicals, which is a non-selective stronger oxidant than ozone. The effluent obtained from the pharmaceutical industry mainly contained anti-cancer drugs, anti-psychotic drugs, and some pain killers. The peroxone process had 75-88.5% chemical oxygen demand (COD) reduction efficiency at pH 5-11 in 3 h. Adsorption by activated char further reduced the COD to 85.4-92.7% for pH 5-11 in 2.5 h. All other water quality parameters were significantly decreased (>73% removal) during ozonation. The primary operational parameters (system pH and H2O2 concentration) were also varied, and their effects were analyzed. The pseudo-first-order rate constants for ozonation were calculated, and they were found to be in the range of 1.42 × 10-4 to 3.35 × 10-4 s-1 for pH 5-11. The kinetic parameters for adsorption were calculated for the pseudo-first-order, pseudo-second-order, and Elovich models. The fit of the pseudo-first-order kinetic model to the experimental data was the best.
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- Surabhi Patel
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute
of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute
of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute
of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute
of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
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Hong Y, Jin HJ, Kwak HW. Nitrogen-Rich Magnetic Bio-Activated Carbon from Sericin: A Fast Removable and Easily Separable Superadsorbent for Anionic Dye Removal. Macromol Res 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s13233-020-8132-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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