Abstract
Adsorbents with synchronously high protein adsorption performance and a facile synthetic route are highly desired in protein separation. In this study, a facile yet effective strategy to develop porous chitosan microspheres (PCMs) with high specific surface area (SSA) using agarose as the pore-forming agent is reported. Through heat treatment, the agarose chains in the chitosan/agarose composite microspheres (CAM) were removed, leading to the generation of nanopores/nanochannels and the improvement of SSA. The obtained PCMs showed hierarchical porous structure and a maximum SSA of 246.48 m2 g-1. For the application of PCMs as a protein adsorbent, by modification, the resultant immobilized Cu2+ affinity adsorbent (denoted as Cu2+PCM-15) exhibited a high adsorption capacity (301.88 mg g-1), fast adsorption rate (reaching equilibrium in less than 15 min), and excellent adsorption selectivity for BHb. Together with its environmental-friendliness, and abundant biomass chitosan and agarose, the as-prepared affinity adsorbent with high performance has great application potential in the field of bioseparation.
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