AUTHOR=Magnacca Giuliana , Neves Dos Santos Flavio , Sadraei Razieh TITLE=Bio-based Substances From Compost as Reactant and Active Phase for Selective Capture of Cationic Pollutants From Waste Water JOURNAL=Frontiers in Chemistry VOLUME=8 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/chemistry/articles/10.3389/fchem.2020.00550 DOI=10.3389/fchem.2020.00550 ISSN=2296-2646 ABSTRACT=
Alumina porous monoliths were successfully fabricated using a simple and reproducible synthesis dispersing gamma alumina phase from commercial boehmite (GAB) in water containing water-soluble bio-based substances (BBSs) obtained from composted biowaste. The wet mixture obtained was shaped in form of small spheres and then dried and calcined at 500°C in order to burn the organic matter and obtain mesoporous monoliths. They were successively functionalized with BBSs in order to introduce BBS functional groups and obtain an efficient adsorbing system. Therefore, in this work, BBSs acted as template/binder for the production of monoliths and as functionalizing agent of the produced monoliths. The reference powders, deeply studied in a published article (Sadraei et al.,