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Article: Research reports from University of Buenos Aires provide new insights into environmental chemistry.
- Article from:
- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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"The use of a new material (MFPAN) for copper remotion from aqueous solution is reported. An industrial fibber polymer (FPAN) was modified by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition to include tetrazole moieties, as pendant groups," scientists in Buenos Aires, Argentina report.
"A minimum ratio Cu/MPFAN is required to enable precipitation, suggesting a pseudo stoichiometry. Both polymer and metal can be quantitatively recovered from the precipitate by acidification," wrote M.A.M. Alho and colleagues, University of Buenos Aires.
The researchers concluded: "This recovery ensures a recyclable use of this new material.."
Alho and colleagues published their study ...