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Use of apple seeds as new source for synthesis of polyacrylonitrile-based adsorbent to remove Pb(II)

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Bromoactylated apple seeds (BAS) was used as new source for the synthesis of environmental adsorbent. Apple seeds were modified by bromoacetyl bromide to obtain a macroinitiator for single electron transfer-living radical polymerization (SET-LRP) of acrylonitrile (AN). The amidoxime (AO) adsorbent was prepared by the reaction of the graft copolymer bromoactylated apple seeds (BAS)/polyacrylonitrile (BAS-g-PAN) with hydroxylamine. Amidoxime BAS-g-PAN (AO BAS-g-PAN) was used to remove Pb(II) and the maximum adsorption for Pb(II) was 1.58 mmol/g. AO BAS-g-PAN could also selectively adsorb Pb(II) from binary ion systems in the existence of Ag(I), Ni(II) and Zn(II). This efficient modifying approach provides a new powerful mean toward filling the gap on apple waste as a potential source for controlling heavy metal pollution.

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The authors are grateful for the financial support by the National Natural Scientific Foundation of China (No. 51573075), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (No. NCET-11-1028), the Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Shandong province (No. JQ201203), and the Program for Scientific Research Innovation Team in Colleges and universities of Shandong Province.

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    Dongcheng Yang, Lili Yu, Hou Chen, Yanbo Yu, Yuanyuan Xu, Jinming Sun & Yating Wang

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Yang, D., Yu, L., Chen, H. et al. Use of apple seeds as new source for synthesis of polyacrylonitrile-based adsorbent to remove Pb(II). Polym. Bull. 74, 5231–5247 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-017-2012-4

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