Scalable Synthesis of Hide Substance-Chitosan-Hydroxyapatite: Novel Biocomposite from Industrial Wastes and Its Efficiency in Dye Removal.

ABSTRACT: A novel porous polymer-inorganic hybrid biocomposite with various functional groups (hide substance/chitosan/hydroxyapatite) has been synthesized in simple, economic, and scalable process utilizing leather industry solid waste and seafood industry waste composed with hydroxyapatite. Physicochemical characterization of the material reveals formation of composites with homogenous distribution of the constituents in the material matrix. The composite is hard and porous (with 0.1632 cm³/g slit-shaped mesopores and micropores) having particle sizes 40-80 μm and a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area of 55.54 m²/g. The material is polycrystalline in nature with a fair amount of amorphous substance and less hydrophilic in character than constituent polymers. The dye removal e

SUBMITTER: Chatterjee S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6645111 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature