Towards an in-depth experimental and theoretical understanding of the cadmium uptake mechanism on a synthesized chitin biopolymer

This work analyzes the adsorption of cadmium, a potentially toxic pollutant, on biopolymers synthesized from shrimp shells, as a promising new adsorbent. Spectroscopic analysis, such as FTIR, ATD/ATG, XRD, and SEM/EDX techniques, were used to characterize chitin before it was exposed to cadmium ions...