摘要
In this study, the feasibility of using chitosan, a multifunctional environmentally friendly biopolymer, at different molecular weights to simultaneously adsorb various metal ions from aqueous solutions was evaluated. The experiments were carried out to estimate adsorptivity and selectivity of three molecular weights chitosan, 3.60 × 105 （Chl）, 5.97 × 105 （Ch2） and 9.47 × 105 （Ch3） g/mol, towards Cu（II）, Ni（II）, and Pb（II） ions in aqueous solutions. Experimental results indicated that chitosan of high molecular weight （Ch3） was the best at adsorption capacity than the others. On chitosan solutions followed by Ni（II） and then Cu（II）. the other hand, Pb（lI） had the highest adsorption ability in the three
