“…In addition to the environmental friendliness of SA, the carboxyl groups on its molecular chain can serve as an active site for adsorbing metal ions, and the reactive -OH group on its molecular chain can also be easily modified by grafting reaction to obtain hydrogel materials with more functional groups ( Wang and Wang, 2010 ). Due to the superior performance and eco-friendly advantages of SA, it has been widely used to prepare various polymer packing films ( Saravanakumar et al, 2020 ; Zhang et al, 2020 ), drug-delivery vehicles ( Mishra et al, 2021 ), antibacterial materials ( Dwivedi et al, 2020 ), carrier of catalyst ( Khan et al, 2020 ), superabsorbent hydrogel ( Kassem et al, 2020 ), coatings ( Fang et al, 2021 ) and adsorbent ( Wang et al, 2013a ; Gao et al, 2020 ). These materials derived from SA not only show excellent performance, but also exhibit unique eco-friendly advantages.…”