RETRACTED ARTICLE: Recent advances in green technology and Industrial Revolution 4.0 for a sustainable future

P Bradu, A Biswas, C Nair, S Sreevalsakumar… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
This review gives concise information on green technology (GT) and Industrial Revolution
4.0 (IR 4.0). Climate change has begun showing its impacts on the environment, and the …

Developments and application of chitosan-based adsorbents for wastewater treatments

P Bhatt, S Joshi, GMU Bayram, P Khati… - Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Water quality is deteriorating continuously as increasing levels of toxic inorganic and
organic contaminants mostly discharging into the aquatic environment. Removal of such …

Chitosan based materials in cosmetic applications: A review

K Kulka, A Sionkowska - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review provides a report on the properties and recent advances in the application of
chitosan and chitosan-based materials in cosmetics. Chitosan is a polysaccharide that can …

Chitosan-based Schiff bases: Promising materials for biomedical and industrial applications

V Pawariya, S De, J Dutta - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2024 - Elsevier
There is plenty of scope for modifying chitosan, an only polycationic natural polysaccharide,
owing to its reactive functional groups, namely hydroxyl and amino groups. Although …

Factors influencing the antimicrobial mechanism of chitosan action and its derivatives: A review

M Nasaj, M Chehelgerdi, B Asghari… - International journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chitosan, a versatile amino polysaccharide biopolymer derived from chitin, exhibits broad-
spectrum antimicrobial activity against various pathogenic microorganisms, including gram …

Chitosan based adsorbents for the removal of phosphate and nitrate: A critical review

AS Eltaweil, AM Omer, HG El-Aqapa, NM Gaber… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
The tremendous development in the industrial sector leads to discharging of the several
types of effluents containing detrimental contaminants into water sources. Lately, the …

Cu (II) removal from wastewater using chitosan-based adsorbents: a review

AK Mallik, SMF Kabir, FBA Rahman, MN Sakib… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Copper is one of the most well-known heavy metals; while it is an essential nutrient for living
organisms, its excessive presence in wastewaters is equally hazardous, causing a variety of …

[HTML][HTML] Protective, biostimulating, and eliciting effects of chitosan and its derivatives on crop plants

M Stasińska-Jakubas, B Hawrylak-Nowak - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chitosan is a biodegradable and biocompatible polysaccharide obtained by partial
deacetylation of chitin. This polymer has been gaining increasing popularity due to its …

A review on super-wettable porous membranes and materials based on bio-polymeric chitosan for oil-water separation

U Baig, M Faizan, A Waheed - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Appropriate surface wettability of membranes and materials are of an extreme importance
for targeting separation of mixtures/emulsions such as oil from water or conversely water …

Recent development of magnetic biochar crosslinked chitosan on heavy metal removal from wastewater–modification, application and mechanism

JF Chin, ZW Heng, HC Teoh, WC Chong, YL Pang - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metal contamination in water bodies is currently in an area of greater concern due to
the adverse effects on human health. Despite the good adsorption performance of biochar …