From Waste to Wardrobe: Spent Metal-Capturing Aerogel Reborn as Luxury-Leather Tanning Agent (IMAGE)

Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts

From Waste to Wardrobe: Spent Metal-Capturing Aerogel Reborn as Luxury-Leather Tanning Agent

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Tannery effluent is stripped of chromium, aluminum and zirconium by a chitosan-cellulose sponge that, once loaded, is melted straight into hides—no landfill, no acid recovery, no extra chemicals

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Institute of Biomass and Function Materials & National Demonstration Centre for Experimental Light Chemistry Engineering Education, College of Bioresources Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710021, China

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