CTS	Chitosan
La-CTS	Chitosan attached with lanthanum(III)
La-CTS-B	Chitosan attached with lanthanum(III) after boron adsorption
FTIR	Fourier-transform infrared spectrometry
SEM	Scanning electron microscopy
XRD	X-ray diffractometry
ICP-OES	Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry
XPS	X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
PFO model	Pseudo-first-order kinetic model
PSO model	Pseudo-second-order kinetic model