“…The FTIR spectra of chitosan/montmorillonite-sulfosuccinic acid (CS/MMT-SSA) composite membranes are represented in Figure 6. In Figure 5 it is seen that there are several peaks the characteristics of the chitosan matrix that appear are in the area of number waves 3400-3470 cm -1 , 2877 cm -1 , 1647 cm -1 and 1589 cm -1 , each of which indicates the presence of stretching vibrations -OH, stretching vibrations -CH2, stretching vibration of the carbonyl group (C=O), and the bending vibration of N−H of the group amine (−NH2), similar spectrums were also found in other studies (Ramadhan et al, 2014;Purwanto et al, 2016b). The characteristic vibration bands of montmorillonite (MMT) MMT are shown near 1075 cm −1 (Si-O) (Zhang et al, 2007;Faghihi et al, 2013) and vibrations around 618 cm -1 Al-O-Si (Ayyubi and Admaja, 2020).…”