Applications of chitosan in environmental remediation: A review

P Pal, A Pal, K Nakashima, BK Yadav - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental biotechnology is the use of biotechnology to develop and regulate biological
systems for the remediation of environmental contamination. Nature has gifted ample …

Chitin and its derivatives: Structural properties and biomedical applications

SI Ahmad, R Ahmad, MS Khan, R Kant… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Chitin, a polysaccharide that occurs abundantly in nature after cellulose, has attracted the
interest of the scientific community due to its plenty of availability and low cost. Mostly, it is …

Biopolymers and composites: Properties, characterization and their applications in food, medical and pharmaceutical industries

GP Udayakumar, S Muthusamy, B Selvaganesh… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polymers have occupied an indispensable role in almost all types of industries for their
immense physical and mechanical characteristics, mainly in food, packaging …

Fluoride removal from water by adsorption—a review

A Bhatnagar, E Kumar, M Sillanpää - Chemical engineering journal, 2011 - Elsevier
Fluoride contamination in drinking water due to natural and anthropogenic activities has
been recognized as one of the major problems worldwide imposing a serious threat to …

Fluoride in drinking water and defluoridation of water

S Jagtap, MK Yenkie, N Labhsetwar… - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
1.1. Fluoride in Water Water is an essential natural resource for sustaining life. Water is
certainly not free everywhere. However, chemical composition of surface or subsurface is …

Fluoride removal from water by chitosan derivatives and composites: a review

P Miretzky, AF Cirelli - Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
Fluoride is an essential element, indispensable for maintenance of dental health.
Nevertheless, fluoride concentrations in drinking water above 1.5 mgL− 1 may be …

Impact of fluoride in potable water–An outlook on the existing defluoridation strategies and the road ahead

M Barathi, ASK Kumar, N Rajesh - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
To have or not to have fluoride in water is quite a debatable proposition although an upper
limit of 1.0 mg L− 1 is regarded as fairly safe. It has been known since long that small …

Development of new alginate entrapped Fe (III)–Zr (IV) binary mixed oxide for removal of fluoride from water bodies

SK Swain, T Patnaik, PC Patnaik, U Jha… - Chemical Engineering …, 2013 - Elsevier
The present work reports the decontamination of fluoride from water bodies using a newly
developed hybrid material of (Fe/Zr)–alginate (FZCA) microparticles. The hybrid material …

Enhanced fluoride removal over MgFe2O4–chitosan–CaAl nanohybrid: Response surface optimization, kinetic and isotherm study

M Ghanbarian, M Ghanbarian, AH Mahvi… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work an effective adsorption route was developed for fluoride removal from aqueous
solution. For this purpose MgFe 2 O 4, MgFe 2 O 4–chitosan and a three component …

Chemical treated laterite as promising fluoride adsorbent for aqueous system and kinetic modeling

A Maiti, JK Basu, S De - Desalination, 2011 - Elsevier
Efficiency of acid–base treated raw laterite (RL) is investigated for removal of fluoride. FTIR,
SEM-EDX, and surface area analyzer are used to characterize the treated laterite (TL). The …