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Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 2011, 3, 832-843 doi:10.4236/jwarp.2011.311093 Published Online November 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jwarp) Biosorption of Trivalent Chromium from Aqueous Solution by Red Seaweed Polysiphonia nigrescens 1 1* 1 1 1 Patricia Blanes , Luis Sala , Silvia García , Juan González , María Frascaroli , Masafumi Harada2 3 3 4 , Cong Cong , Yasuhiro Niwa , Cristina Matulewicz , Héctor Prado4 5 5 , Adriana Cortadi , Martha Gattuso 1 National University of Rosario , Rosario, Argentina 2Faculty of Human Life and Environment, Nara Women ’s University, Nara, Japan 3Photon Factory, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan 4Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina 5Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina * E-mail : sala@.ar, garcia@.ar Received September 9, 2011; revised October 5, 2011; accepted November 4, 2011 Abstract This paper presents the biosorption of chromium onto red seaweed (Polysiphonia nigrescens). Batch mode experiments were performed to determine experimental parameters affecting sorption process such as pH, contact time, initial metal ion concentration and biomass dosage. The Cr(III) sorption was