“…Chitosan can be used to coat magnetic nanoparticles to prepare magnetic nano-adsorbents because the functional groups of chitosan, including amine and hydroxyl groups are effective in adsorbing heavy metal ions and dyes (Donia, Yousif, Atia, & Elsamalehy, 2014;Liu, Hu, Fang, Zhang, & Zhang, 2009). Moreover, chemical modification of chitosan successfully improved the adsorption efficiency of magnetic nanoparticles (Hritcu, Humelnicu, Dodi, & Popa, 2012;Kuang, Wang, Liu, & Wu, 2013;Ren, Abbood, He, Peng, & Huang, 2013;Wang, Peng, Yang, Liu, & Hu, 2011;Zhu, Hu, & Wang, 2012).…”