Polysaccharides and proteins are important macromolecules for develo** hydrogels
devoted to biomedical applications. Chemical hydrogels offer chemical, mechanical, and …

The consumer demand for starch continues to grow to meet food consumption needs.
However, starch producers are increasingly looking towards non-food, industrial …

Water sources have become extremely scarce and contaminated by organic and inorganic
industrial and agricultural pollutants as well as household wastes. Poisoning water …

Methylene blue (MB) is categorized as an organic dye (OD) released as effluents after
various industrial activities and is one of the most abundant pollutants in the aquatic …

Herein, NaOH solution of a finite concentration was used to pretreat starch, which serves a
novel effective pretreatment. A starch-based high-performance adsorptive hydrogel (STAH) …

In order to reduce the production costs of hydrogel and decrease the negative impact on the
environment, a new low-cost and eco-friendly semi-interpenetrating polymer network (semi …

A novel magnetic starch-based adsorbent (MSBA) was synthesized from the copolymer
solution of starch-grafted acrylic acid treated by an alkali homogeneous phase as the …

Numerous adsorbents are used for water treatment, among them, hydrogels have attracted a
great deal of attention in recent years. Hydrogels are three-dimensional polymer networks …

Over the past two decades, the development and commercialization of slow-release
fertilizers (SRFs) have significantly advanced, with the primary aim of mitigating …

In this work, eco-friendly superabsorbent hydrogel (SAH) films based on cassava starch
(CSt) and polyacrylic acid (PAA) were successfully fabricated and optimized via a one-pot …