130
Table 5.8 (continued)
Adsorbent
q
max in mg g
−1
Sources
Cr(VI) Zn(II)
Cu(II)
Cd(II) Hg(II) Pb(II) Ni(II) Fe(III)
Thiol- modified adsorbent Cotton
28.67
Wu et al. (2012)
unmodified
10.78
Thiol- modified wood sawdust
43.14
17.03
Unmodified
Thiol- modified buckwheat hull
44.84
Unmodified
34.06
Succinylated nano-cellulose
105.26 120.74
227.76
43.66
Hokkanen et al. (2013)
Cellulose-based adsorbent
584.80
Zhou et al. (2014)
Magnetic cellulose nanocomposite
171.5
Sun et al. (2014)
Porous cellulose modified with
polyethyleneimine
83.98
Cr(III)
377.19 He et al. (2014)
Cellulose–TiO
2 nanocomposites
222.0
Li et al. (2015)
Chemically modified magnetic cellulosebased beads
20.8
47.57
37.99
Luo et al. (2016)
Cross- linked oxidized microcrystalline
cellulose, S1
17.94
14.84
20.46
Cao et al. (2017)
S2
16.78
14.00
18.02
S3
12.71
11.11
13.45
Cellulose bead-based biosorbents
128.24
Maaloul et al. (2019)
Magnetic chitosan nanocomposites
142.32
Subedi et al. (2019)
Graphene-modified magnetic chitosan
nanocomposites
101.31
S. Nag and S. Biswas