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Grafting of tea waste with polyacrylic acid and its potential applications

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The indigenous materials such as tea waste were exploited as antimicrobial adsorbent for removing heavy metal ions. It was well known that tea waste was characterized with biodegradability and environmental-friendly product. Grafting copolymerization of acrylic acid onto tea waste was carried out using gamma radiation. The effects of solvent, dose and feeding concentration of acrylic acid have been investigated to achieve the optimum conditions. Grating (%) ranged from 30 to 70 for DMSO and H2O, respectively. The grafted tea waste was characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, swelling study, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectrometry X-rays (EDS). The grafted samples were used in waste water treatment to remove heavy metal ions (Cr3+, Pb2+ and Hg2+). The highest adsorption capacity was 35 and 200 mg/g of Hg+2 ions for ungrafted and grafted samples, respectively. The results showed that the selectivity among these metal ions is different onto tea waste-graft-polyacrylic acid. The grafted tea waste samples, which complexed with Cr3+, Pb2+ and Hg2+ ions, were found to have antimicrobial features. Therefore, they could be used as adsorbent in removing heavy metal ions with antimicrobial features as well.

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Acknowledgements

Many thanks are due to Mona M.K. Shehata (Doctor of Microbiology in National Centre for Radiation Research and Technology) for her helpful work on the carrying out the antimicrobial test on samples.

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    Ahmed Awadallah-F

  2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Cairo, 12613, Egypt

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Awadallah-F, A., Naguib, H.F. Grafting of tea waste with polyacrylic acid and its potential applications. Polym. Bull. 74, 4659–4679 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-017-1981-7

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