Water-Floating Hydrogel Polymer Microsphere Composites for Application in Hydrological Mining of Cu(II) Ions.

ABSTRACT: Innovative materials and technologies capable of extraction and recovery of technologically relevant metal ions from various water sources, such as lakes, oceans, ponds, or wastewater reservoirs, are in great demand. Polymer beads are among the most well-known solid-phase adsorbents and ion exchangers employed in metal ion recovery. On the other hand, hydrogels are an emerging platform for producing innovative adsorbents, which are environmentally friendly and biocompatible materials. In this work, we take advantage of both technologies and produce a new type of material by loading nanostructured polymer microsphere adsorbent into a PVA matrix to obtain a hydrogel polymer microsphere (HPM) composite in the form of a block. The main role of the poly(4-vinylpyrridine-co-methacrylic acid) mic

SUBMITTER: Honciuc A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10574089 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature