| CCTS | Carboxymethyl chitosan |
| RhB | Rhodamine B |
| CS | Chitosan |
| PVA | Polyvinyl alcohol |
| FTIR | Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy |
| SEM | Scanning electron microscopy |
| XPS | X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy |
| BET | Brunauer–Emmet–Teller |
| DFT | Density functional theory |
| MD | Molecular dynamics |
| PFO | Pseudo-first-order kinetic |
| PSO | Pseudo-second-order kinetic |
| D-R | Dubinin-Radushkevich |