“…However, high affinity of chitosan and high selectivity of its chemically modified derivatives to many metal ions promote the interest to application of these materials to preconcentrate metal ions from wastewaters, natural waters, and biological and geological samples for subsequent analytical determination using atomic absorption spectrometry (ААS) (Suneetha, Kumar, Harinath, Reddy, & Seshaiah, 2012;Wan, Wang, & Qian, 2002;Wang, Li, Bao, Liu, & Liu, 2011), atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) (Sabarudin, Oshima, Noguchi, & Motomizu, 2007), inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) (Katarina, Takayanagi, Oshima, & Motomizu, 2006;Sabarudin et al, 2007) and other techniques (Shinde et al, 2013).…”