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Record W4411298537 · doi:10.6000/1929-5995.2025.14.06

Multifunctional Characterization of Fucoidan: Structural Insights and Efficient Removal of Toxic Metal Ions

2025· article· en· W4411298537 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Research Updates in Polymer Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicSeaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFucoidanMaterials scienceCharacterization (materials science)Metal ions in aqueous solutionMetalNanotechnologyIonMetallurgyPolysaccharideChemistryOrganic chemistry

Abstract

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In this study, commercial fucoidan was subjected to comprehensive physicochemical and structural characterization to evaluate its potential for removing heavy metal ions from aqueous media. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) confirmed the presence of sulfated heterofucans, with distinct signals corresponding to carboxyl, sulfate, and sugar ring functionalities. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) revealed notable thermal stability, with major degradation occurring above 240 °C. Interaction mechanisms have been proposed on the basis of functional groups, particularly sulfates and carboxylates. Finally, the efficacy of fucoidan for Ni(II), Pb(II), and Cu(II) removal was validated via inductively coupled plasma (ICP) spectroscopy, which revealed removal rates of up to 99.89% for Cu and 99.84% for Pb. These findings highlight the dual role of fucoidan as both a bioactive polymer and a promising biopolymer for wastewater remediation.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.411
Threshold uncertainty score0.515

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.294 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it