Researchers have developed a chitosan-based magnetic gel to address water pollution caused dyes. The study focuses on removing the azo dye Direct Red 83:1 from water. The gel, synthesized with chitosan and iron, exhibits a porous structure and excellent thermal stability. Its adsorption capacity for the dye is 17.46 mg/g, following pseudo-second-order kinetics and fitting the Temkin isotherm model. This innovative solution is promising for industrial wastewater treatment due to its high efficiency and easy magnetic separation of purified water.
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En un reciente estudio publicado en Pharmaceutics, nuestro equipo de investigadores de la Universidad Católica de Murcia ha desarrollado un sistema novedoso de liberación de fármacos utilizando impresión 3D. Este sistema, basado en una combinación de policaprolactona (PCL), quitosano (CS) y vancomicina, muestra una eficacia antimicrobiana significativa contra Staphylococcus aureus y Staphylococcus epidermidis, bacterias comúnmente asociadas con infecciones óseas