“…22 Biopolymer-based materials, including polysaccharides, 23 polypeptides, silk, alginates, polylactic acid (PLA), polyhydroxy butyrate (PHB), and poly-3-caprolactone (PCL), have found enormous applications as advanced materials for wastewater treatment. [22][23][24][25][26]31 Additionally, due to the advantages of biopolymers including surface modication, facile preparation and availability, biocompatibility, non-toxicity, biodegradability, and active functional groups [27][28][29][30] they are gaining popularity as exceptional systems for the removal of various toxicogenic entities from effluents.…”