Facile preparation of rice husk-derived green coagulant via water-based heatless and salt-free technique for the effective treatment of urban and agricultural runoffs

Evaluation of Turbidity and Color Removal in Water Treatment: A Comparative Study between Opuntia ficus-indica Fruit Peel Mucilage and FeCl3

“…This result denotes an asymptotic trend of particle removal as the mucilage dose increases, which can be attributed to a process of early coating of the particle surface by the soluble polysaccharides of the mucilage. Such a coating rapidly decreases the number of active adsorption sites and sorption through hydrogen bonding does not occur efficiently; that is, the process of formation of colloidal particles/polysaccharide chain and colloidal particles/polysaccharide chain/complexes is compromised [ 17 , 18 , 19 ].…”

The International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INPST) and the power of Twitter networking exemplified through #INPST hashtag analysis

“…Cellulose nanofibers with improved photothermal stability, for example, have potential in the fields of coating and packaging (Deng et al, 2022). Rice husk can be applied as a green coagulant (Tan et al, 2022), and hydrophobically modified agarose as hydrogels (Evans et al, 2022). Sweeteners (Pawar et al, 2013;Yeung et al, 2019d), biosurfactants (Liu et al, 2022), bioremediators (Xue et al, 2022), adsorbents (Etim et al, 2016), biofuels (Murillo et al, 2021;Sirigeri et al, 2019), fuel cells (Chen et al, 2018), carbon electrodes (Xi et al, 2021), carbon fertilizers (Xiang et al, 2021), paper industry uses (Haunreiter et al, 2021), cosmeceuticals (Alves et al, 2020), and pesticides (Yang et al, 2021;Zaccardelli et al, 2020) are just a couple of examples out of the broad spectrum applications of various natural products and materials.…”