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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
FTIR analysis. Two functional groups of hydrogels; COO- shifted from 1635 cm−1 (orange arrow) to 1626 cm−1 (green arrow), and that of NH3+, located at 3300–3500 (blue and black arrow), showed that hydrogels were chelated with copper ions; a.u. = arbitrary unit.