Paper waste extracted Α-cellulose fibers super-magnetized and chitosan-functionalized for covalent laccase immobilization

Gajanan S. Ghodake, Jiwook Yang, Surendra S. Shinde, Bhupendra M. Mistry, Dae Young Kim, Jung Suk Sung, Avinash A. Kadam

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Abstract

Enormous disposal of paper wastes (PW) causing number of environmental problems. PW is efficiently used to extract multifunctional α-cellulose fibers (αCFs). Thus, αCFs extraction from PW, and functionalization with Fe3O4 and chitosan were successfully performed for immobilization of laccase. Therefore, in this investigation, PW extracted αCFs were tuned with supermagnetic Fe3O4 (M) and functionalized with chitosan (CTA) (M-PW-αCF-CTA). Furthermore, M-PW-αCF-CTA was glutaraldehyde cross-linked for covalent laccase immobilization. The synthesized materials were characterized by FT-IR, TGA, FE-SEM, FE-HR-TEM and VSM analyzes. M-PW-αCF-CTA exhibited magnetic saturation value of 14.72 emu/g. Laccase immobilized on M-PW-αCF-CTA (M-PW-αCF-CTA-Lac) gave 92% of activity recovery and loading capacity of 73.30 mg/g. M-PW-αCF-CTA-Lac showed excellent pH, temperature, and storage stabilities with the exceptional reusability potential. Moreover, M-PW-αCF-CTA-Lac was applied for repeated removal of carcinogenic Direct Red 28 (DR28). Therefore, M-PW-αCF-CTA-Lac is green and economical biocatalyst with extraordinary separation potential can be enforced for environmental pollutants reclamation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)420-427
Number of pages8
JournalBioresource Technology
Volume261
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2018

Keywords

  • Carcinogenic textile dyes
  • Chitosan
  • Laccase immobilization
  • Magnetic nanomaterials
  • Paper waste biomass
  • α-Cellulose

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