Fosso-Kankeu, E.Mittal, H.Mishra, Shivani B.Mishra, Ajay K.2016-08-152016-08-152015Fosso-Kankeu, E. et al. 2015. Gum ghatti and acrylic acid based biodegradable hydrogels for the effective adsorption of cationic dyes. Journal of industrial and engineering chemistry, 22:171-178. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiec.2014.07.007]1226-086Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/18234https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1226086X14003517https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiec.2014.07.007This article reports biosorption properties of Gum ghatti and acrylic acid based graft co-polymers for the adsorption of methylene blue (MB) and rhodamine B (RhB). Gg–cl–PAA removed 99% MB and 98% RhB from the respective dye solutions. Adsorption isotherm followed Langmuir isotherm with maximum adsorption capacity of 909.09 mg/g (MB) and 819.67 mg/g (RhB). Both the dyes followed pseudo second order rate equation. Eco-friendliness of Gg–cl–PAA was studied by assessing its susceptibility to biodegradation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) and mineral salt medium (MSM). Gg–cl–PAA degraded faster in PBS (18%) than MSM (15.1%) using P. aeruginosaenGum ghattiPseudomonas aeruginosabiodegradationdyesadsorptionArticle