Fabrication and characterization of a toughened spherical chitosan adsorbent only through physical crosslinking based on mechanism of Chain Rearrangement

• Published in: RSC advances Vol. 12; no. 15; pp. 9179 - 9185
• Main Authors: Liu, Cai-Hong, Jiang, Hai-Tao, Wang, Chun-Hong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Royal Society of Chemistry 23.03.2022; The Royal Society of Chemistry
• Subjects: Adsorbents; Adsorption; Biocompatibility; Chain entanglement; Chemistry; Chitosan; Crosslinking; Crystal structure; Crystallinity; Diffraction patterns; Entanglement; Homogeneity; Ion exchange; ion exchange capacity; light microscopy; Mass transfer; Mechanical properties; Microscopy; Natural products; Optical microscopy; Particle size distribution; polymerization; Polymers; Polystyrene resins; polystyrenes; porous media; Spherical powders; strength (mechanics); Surface chemistry; Synthesis; X-ray diffraction

Chitosan extracted from natural products has gained tremendous attention in the field of adsorption and separation due to its inherent biocompatibility and potential applications. In this research, we synthesized a new type of spherical chitosan adsorbent (SCA) by controlling the mass transfer rate...