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Heterogeneous catalysis on chitosan-based materials: a review
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Chitosan is an optically active biopolymer that is characterized by a strong affinity for transition metals and can be used as a support for the preparation of heterogeneous catalysts in the form of colloids, flakes, gel beads, fibers and other metal oxides as discussed by the authors.About:
This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2005-01-01. It has received 653 citations till now.read more
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Application of chitosan, a natural aminopolysaccharide, for dye removal from aqueous solutions by adsorption processes using batch studies: A review of recent literature
TL;DR: A review of the use of chitosan and its grafted and crosslinked derivatives for dye removal from aqueous solutions can be found in this paper, which summarizes the key advances and results that have been obtained in their decolorizing application as biosorbents.
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Photochemical green synthesis of calcium-alginate-stabilized Ag and Au nanoparticles and their catalytic application to 4-nitrophenol reduction.
TL;DR: The as-prepared new solid-phase biopolymer-based catalysts are very efficient, stable, easy to prepare, eco-friendly, and cost-effective, and they have the potential for industrial applications.
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Chitosan-based nanomaterials: A state-of-the-art review
TL;DR: Chitosan based nanomaterials have superior physical and chemical properties such as high surface area, porosity, tensile strength, conductivity, photo-luminescent as well as increased mechanical properties as comparison to pure chitOSan.
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Recyclable Heterogeneous Palladium Catalysts in Pure Water: Sustainable Developments in Suzuki, Heck, Sonogashira and Tsuji–Trost Reactions
TL;DR: In this paper, a review summarizes the progress made essentially these last ten years on heterogeneous palladium catalysis in pure water and discusses the efficiency and reusability of the heterogeneous catalysts as well as the experimental conditions from a sustainable chemistry point of view.
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Application of magnetic chitosan composites for the removal of toxic metal and dyes from aqueous solutions
TL;DR: This review outlines the preparation of MCCs as well as methods to characterize these materials using FTIR, XRD, TGA and other microscopy-based techniques to show their advantages as adsorbents in the treatment of polluted aqueous solutions.
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Interactions of metal ions with chitosan-based sorbents: a review
TL;DR: In the case of metal anions, the metal cations can be adsorbed by chelation on amine groups of chitosan in near neutral solutions as discussed by the authors.
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Metal complexation by chitosan and its derivatives: a review
TL;DR: In this paper, various classes of chitosan derivatives and analytical methods to analyze them, the sorption mechanism, and structural analysis of the metal complexes by various methods are discussed.
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Removal of copper(II) ions from aqueous solution onto chitosan and cross-linked chitosan beads
TL;DR: In this article, the adsorption of Cu(II) ions onto chitosan and cross-linked chittosan beads has been investigated and the results showed that the results correlated well with the Langmuir isotherm equation.
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Comparison of high surface Pt/C catalysts by cyclic voltammetry
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed procedure for comparing high surface Pt/C catalysts was pointed out, and the real platinum metal surface area was evaluated by cyclic voltammetry on a thin porous coated disk electrode.
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Controlled functionalization of the polysaccharide chitin
TL;DR: In this article, a review of basic and application studies in chitin chemistry is reviewed as well as some basic aspects of this specialty biomass resource, where a special emphasis is placed on the controlled modification reactions to prepare Chitin derivatives with well-defined structures and thereby to construct sophisticated molecular architecture having various advanced functions.