Applications of chitin- and chitosan-derivatives for the detoxification of water and wastewater--a short review.

By A. Bhatnagar, M. Sillanpää. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2009

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Fungal endophytes: an untapped source of biocatalysts (2012, background): “Chitin and its modified products have been used to detoxify waste water (Bhatnagar and Sillanpää 2009).”
Removal of various pollutants from water and wastewater by modified chitosan adsorbents (2017, background): “The application of chitosan-based biosorbents for pollution removal has been well documented (Bhatnagar and Sillanpaa, 2009).”
Chitin Extraction from Crustacean Shells Using Biological Methods – A Review (2013, background): “removal and binding of heavy metals (1,11,44, 77,78)”
Application of magnetic chitosan composites for the removal of toxic metal and dyes from aqueous solutions. (2013, background): “The use of adsorbents composed of natural polymers has attracted significant interest, and polysaccharides such as chitosan and its derivatives have received particular attention [25–31].”
A future perspective in crop protection chitosan and its oligosaccharides (2014, background): “Chitosan are highly basic polysaccharides with unique properties like the ability to form films [23] to react with polyanions [24] as well as to chelate and remove metal ions [25].”