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New Insights into the Remediation of Water Pollutants using Nanobentonite
Incorporated Nanocellulose Chitosan Based Aerogel
Vivek Sharma, Tasrin Shahnaz, Senthilmurugan Subbiah & Selvaraju Narayanasamy
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Abstract
Dyes, organic solvents and oils pose a serious threat to the water resources and
this is of immense global concern. For the removal of such harmful materials from
wastewater, a novel aerogel was synthesized from a hydrogel precursor, formed by
incorporating nano bentonite into the dialdehyde nanocellulose and carboxymethyl
chitosan mesh. The material showed exceptional adsorption capacity towards diverse
pollutants like dyes, organic solvents, and oils. This ultralight aerogel yielded
maximum dye removal capacity up to 29.842 g g-1 and 20.927 g g-1 within the first 5
min of the reaction, over a wide range of pH towards Bromophenol blue and Direct
Blue 6 respectively and up to 50 times of its own weight in case of oil and organic
solvents. This eco-friendly aerogel showed a slight drop in the adsorption capacity
after ten cycles of oil and organic solvents, which paves a path in its application
in the removal of multiple classes of the pollutant from wastewater.

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Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the monetary assistance from Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati, India (Grant No. BSBESUGIITG01213xSEN001) to undertake the study. The
assistance with high throughput instrumentation of The Central Instrumentation
Facility, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is highly appreciated.

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Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, 781039, India
Vivek Sharma, Tasrin Shahnaz & Selvaraju Narayanasamy
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati,
Guwahati, Assam, 781039, India
Senthilmurugan Subbiah
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Sharma, V., Shahnaz, T., Subbiah, S. et al. New Insights into the Remediation of
Water Pollutants using Nanobentonite Incorporated Nanocellulose Chitosan Based
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Aerogel
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