Two centuries after the discovery of chitin, it is widely accepted that this biopolymer is an
important biomaterial in many aspects. Numerous studies on chitin have focused on its …

An overview of publications focussed on the period since 2000 and outlining modern
methods of sample preparation as well as advanced techniques for determination of rare …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa immobilized multiwalled carbon nanotubes has been used as
biosorbent for the solid phase extraction of some heavy metal ions in environmental …

Chitosan is a polysaccharide formed mainly from repeating residues of D-glucosamine,
having primary amino groups. It is of great interest not only as an underutilized resource, but …

This review discusses and compares the methods given for the determination of rare earth
elements (REE) in natural water samples, including sea, river, lake, tap, ground and waste …

The recovery of three rare earth (RE) metals ions [Yb (III), Dy (III) and Nd (III), belonging to
heavy, mild and light REs, respectively] was investigated using hybrid chitosan-magnetic …

A novel adsorbent of chitosan chemically modified ordered mesoporous silica was
synthesized and employed as a solid phase extraction (SPE) material for flow injection (FI) …

One of the most important aspects of chitosan'derivatization depends on the crosslinking of
their polymeric chains. This chemical strategy may confer new properties to those …

An off-line column preconcentration technique using a micro-column of 2, 6 diacetylpyridine
functionalized Amberlite XAD-4 with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP …

The grafting of amino and carboxylic acid groups on cellulose increased La (III) sorption
efficiency of cellulose: maximum sorption capacity increased from 38 mg La g− 1 for …