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The present work emphasized pure cellulose extracted from jute fiber and further modification was performed by a free radical grafting reaction, which resulted in poly(methyl acrylate) (PMA)-grafted cellulose and poly(acrylonitrile)-grafted cellulose. Subsequently, poly(hydroxamic acid) and poly(amidoxime) ligands were prepared from the PMA-grafted cellulose and PAN-grafted cellulose, respectively. An adsorption study was performed using the desired ligands with heavy metals such as copper, cobalt, chromium and nickel ions. The binding capacity (qe) with copper ions for poly(hydroxamic acid) is 352 mg g\u22121 whereas qe for poly(amidoxime) ligand it was exhibited as 310 mg g\u22121. Other metal ions (chromium, cobalt and nickel) show significance binding properties at pH 6. The Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm study was also performed. The Freundlich isotherm model showed good correlation coefficients for all metal ions, indicating that multiple-layers adsorption was occurred by the polymer ligands. The reusability was evaluated and the adsorbents can be reused for 7 cycles without significant loss of removal performance. Both ligands showed outstanding metals removal capacity from the industrial wastewater as such 98% of copper can be removed from electroplating wastewater and other metals (cobalt, chromium, nickel and lead) can also be removed up to 90%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/polym12112521","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,29]],"date-time":"2020-10-29T23:06:12Z","timestamp":1604012772000},"page":"2521","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":33,"title":["Polymer Ligands Derived from Jute Fiber for Heavy Metal Removal from Electroplating Wastewater"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9294-453X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Md Lutfor","family":"Rahman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Nature Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Choong Jian","family":"Fui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Nature Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tang Xin","family":"Ting","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Nature Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3645-594X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohd Sani","family":"Sarjadi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Nature Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sazmal E.","family":"Arshad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Nature Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Baba","family":"Musta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Nature Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"252","DOI":"10.1016\/j.envpol.2017.04.058","article-title":"The role of algae and cyanobacteria in the production and release of odorants in water","volume":"227","author":"Lee","year":"2017","journal-title":"Environ. 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