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Using crustacean shell wastes to produce chitin/chitosan-based biosorbents has gained increasing attention because of its promising potential for waste recycling and environmental remediation. However, from raw materials to final biosorbents, the traditional acid-alkaline-treated chitin suffered from complicated procedures and serious secondary pollution. In this work, via an integrating one-step environmental-friendly procedure, a novel EDTA-grafted chitin (ECH) was successfully prepared using Portunus trituberculata shells. The obtained biomaterial possessed a three-dimensional porous microstructure and extra functional groups, and showed exceptional adsorption efficiency and reusability for Cu(II) adsorption. The highest Cu(II) removal rate reached 99.4%, while the corresponding adsorption capacity reached 223.70 mg g−1. Moreover, the adsorption data followed better with the Langmuir isotherm model, while it fitted well with both the pseudo-first-order model and the pseudo-second-order kinetics model. Further study suggested that the adsorption mechanisms of Cu(II) by the ECH should be a formation of EDTA–chitin–Cu complex. These findings would enlighten the development of more novel chitin-based biosorbents using crustacean shell wastes via more facile and green ways, as well as their application as biosorbents for environmental restoration.
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This work was financially supported by the Zhejiang Province Public Welfare Technology Application Research Project (LTGN23D060001 and LGF21B060001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42007309), and the Science and Technology Planning Project of Zhoushan City (2021C21018).
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Ge, YM., Zhang, L., Zhang, Y. et al. Effective Removal of Aqueous Cu(II) Pollution by a Novel Readily Prepared Porous Biomaterial Using Crab Shell Wastes. Water Air Soil Pollut 234, 254 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-023-06249-0
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