The invention relates to a
glutamic acid modified
chitosan adsorbent as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: dissolving
chitosan into an
acetic acid solution, adding tetraethoxysilane (TEOS), carrying out stirring for 30 to 40 min, adding aqueous
ammonia, carrying out stirring for 24 to 26 hours, carrying out suction filtering, washing with ethyl
alcohol till the mixture is neutral, and carrying out
vacuum drying to obtain CS-SiO2; mixing CS-SiO2 with the ethyl
alcohol aqueous solution, adding
epoxy chloropropane, carrying out refluxing at the temperature of 70 DEG C for 3 hours to obtain a product, cooling and filtering the product, washing the product with water and the ethyl
alcohol, and
drying the washed product to obtain an
intermediate product I; and dissolving
glutamic acid into a
sodium carbonate solution, adding the
intermediate product I, carrying out refluxing at the temperature of 80 DEG C for 24 hours to obtain a product, cooling and filtering the product, washing with
distilled water till the product is neutral, and carrying out
drying to obtain SiO2-CS-Glu. The adsorbent prepared based on the preparation method goes green, is environment-friendly,
pollution-free and high in separation and enrichment efficiency, can avoid waste of
rare earth resources, and is also applicable to selectively adsorbing
scandium from a solution mixed with
rare earth ions.