Polyvinyl alcohol/polysaccharide hydrogel graft materials for arsenic and heavy metal removal

• Main Authors: Chowdhury, Md. Najmul Kabir, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Beg, Mohammad Dalour Hossen, Hegde, Gurumurthy, Gohari, Rasool Jamshidi
• Format: Article
• Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2015
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/54939/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5nj00509d
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Water pollution from arsenic and some other heavy metals has been reported all over the world. The goal of this investigation is to develop different polysaccharides–polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogel graft materials for the removal of toxic and carcinogenic arsenic (As) species as well as a series of...