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Silk Sericin-Polyethyleneimine Hybrid Hydrogel with Excellent Structural Stability for Cr(VI) Removal

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In this study, a hydrogel-type high-performance Cr(VI) adsorbent was prepared using silk sericin (SS), a secondary silkworm silk protein. Cationic polyethyleneimine (PEI) was used during gelation to confer structural stability to SS and improve its Cr(VI) adsorption performance. The compressive test results indicated that the compression deformation stability of the SS-PEI hybrid hydrogel was four times higher than that of the pristine SS hydrogel owing to the synergistic effect of electrostatic attraction and chemical crosslinking. In addition, the SS-PEI hydrogel presented an excellent Cr(VI) removal capacity of 466 mg/g, which was the highest value among all the SS-based adsorption materials reported to date. In addition, SS-PEI maintained an excellent adsorption efficiency of 90.3% after six adsorption cycles.

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Fisheries Science, Republic of Korea (R2021044), and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (NRF-2020R1C1C1012623), and also supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2019R1A2B5B01070270).

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  1. Program in Environmental and Polymer Engineering, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-gu, Incheon, 22212, Korea

    Subin Oh & Hyoung-Joon Jin

  2. Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Bioresources, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, Korea

    Jungkyu Kim, YunJin Kim & Hyo Won Kwak

  3. Fisheries Engineering Division, National Institute of Fisheries Science, Busan, 46083, Korea

    Subong Park

  4. Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-gu, Incheon, 22212, Korea

    Hyoung-Joon Jin

  5. Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, Korea

    Hyo Won Kwak

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Oh, S., Kim, J., Kim, Y. et al. Silk Sericin-Polyethyleneimine Hybrid Hydrogel with Excellent Structural Stability for Cr(VI) Removal. Macromol. Res. 29, 895–904 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13233-021-9098-0

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