“…In general, for new kinds of hybrid materials, origins of nonideality and cooperativity are not clear enough. Thus, in contrast to the material studied in the present work, silica and cellulose/Al 2 O 3 carriers modified with pyridinium groups do not demonstrate nonideality effects when metal chlorides are adsorbed [18,23,24]. Many factors may affect the chemisorption process and the state of bound ligands and complexes, for instance, heterogeneous surface topography, porous structure of materials, peculiar conformation and accessibility of fixed reacting groups, electrostatic effects, solvation/desolvation effects, and so on.…”