Bio-derived materials as a green route for precious & critical metal recovery and re-use

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Monodisperse Au Nanoparticles for Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO

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Detoxification of metal-bearing effluents: biosorption for the next century

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Biosorption of heavy metal ions using wheat based biosorbents – A review of the recent literature

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Carbons as supports for industrial precious metal catalysts

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A comprehensive review on biosorption of heavy metals by algal biomass: Materials, performances, chemistry, and modeling simulation tools

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Synthesis of polysaccharide-stabilized gold and silver nanoparticles: a green method

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Waste biomass adsorbents for copper removal from industrial wastewater—A review

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Adsorption of Cu(II) ions in aqueous solution using chitosan beads, chitosan–GLA beads and chitosan–alginate beads

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Applicability of agricultural waste and by-products for adsorptive removal of heavy metals from wastewater

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State of the Art for the Biosorption Process—a Review

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Adsorption of platinum (IV), palladium (II) and gold (III) from aqueous solutions onto l-lysine modified crosslinked chitosan resin

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Recovery of precious metals through biosorption — A review

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Recovery of high purity precious metals from printed circuit boards

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Polysaccharides and phytochemicals: a natural reservoir for the green synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles

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Adsorption behaviour of Fe(II) and Fe(III) ions in aqueous solution on chitosan and cross-linked chitosan beads

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Biosorbents for recovery of metals from industrial solutions

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Fungal biosorption – an alternative to meet the challenges of heavy metal pollution in aqueous solutions

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Phytomining: A review

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Chemical and biological extraction of metals present in E waste: A hybrid technology

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Biosorption of precious metals

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Selective recovery of gold and other metal ions from an algal biomass

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Recovery of rare earth metals through biosorption: an overview

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Antibacterial activity of nanocomposites of silver and bacterial or vegetable cellulosic fibers

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Starbons: New Starch‐Derived Mesoporous Carbonaceous Materials with Tunable Properties

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Biosorption of heavy metal ions on immobilized white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor

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Starbons: New Starch‐Derived Mesoporous Carbonaceous Materials with Tunable Properties

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Selective aqueous phase oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid over Pt/C catalysts: influence of the base and effect of bismuth promotion

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Mechanisms of gold recovery from aqueous solutions using a novel tannin gel adsorbent synthesized from natural condensed tannin

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Biosorbents for recovery of precious metals

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Recovery of gold and silver from spent mobile phones by means of acidothiourea leaching followed by adsorption using biosorbent prepared from persimmon tannin

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Recovery of gold(III) and silver(I) on a chemically modified chitosan with magnetic properties

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Biosorption of nickel on blank alginate beads, free and immobilized algal cells

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A simple method to fabricate a chitosan-gold nanoparticles film and its application in glucose biosensor

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Removal of Pb2+, Ag+, Cs+ and Sr2+ from aqueous solution by brewery's waste biomass

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Biosorption of Hg2+, Cd2+, and Zn2+ by Ca-alginate and immobilized wood-rotting fungus Funalia trogii

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Highly dispersed gold on activated carbon fibers for low-temperature CO oxidation

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Biosorption of palladium(II) from aqueous solution by moss (Racomitrium lanuginosum) biomass: Equilibrium, kinetic and thermodynamic studies

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Biosorption of lanthanum and cerium from aqueous solutions by Platanus orientalis leaf powder

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Synergistic antibacterial activity of chitosan–silver nanocomposites on Staphylococcus aureus

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Biomass Now - Sustainable Growth and Use

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Polyethyleneimine modified eggshell membrane as a novel biosorbent for adsorption and detoxification of Cr(VI) from water

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CELLULOSIC SUBSTRATES FOR REMOVAL OF POLLUTANTS FROM AQUEOUS SYSTEMS: A REVIEW. 2. DYES

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Elemental sustainability: Towards the total recovery of scarce metals

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Adsorption of toxic metal ions onto activated carbon

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Palladium and platinum recovery from bicomponent mixtures using chitosan derivatives

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Gold sorption on chitosan derivatives

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Precious metal recovery by selective adsorption using biosorbents

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Chitosan Sorbents for Platinum Sorption from Dilute Solutions

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Biosorption of Reactive Dyes: A Review

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