Magnetic Modification of Insect Chitin Material for Various Applications

In this work the series of sorbent materials based on chitin and chitosan from the shells of Hermetia illucens larvae. The materials have been additionally magnetically modified to provide the possibility of the selective magnetic separation from solutions and suspensions that is especially important in industrial biotechnological processes and in the treatment of various industrial wastewaters. The sorption ability of the materials has been estimated. The methods of scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, temperature-programmed desorption mass spectrometry, atomic absorption spectroscopy and elemental analysis have been applied to characterize the materials.