ATOM INDONESIA
Editor’s Report Article No. : # 473
Title of Paper : Study of Cellulose - N,N'-Methylene Bisacrylamide - Acrylate Acid as Pb2+ Adsorbent
Referee Name :
Comment on Descriptions 1. Title
[ X ] Appropriate [ ] Should be changed
2. Abstract
Yes[ X] No[ ] Is the length reasonable?
Yes[ X ] No[ ] Is it an appropriate summary of the content?
3. Main Text
Yes[ X ] No[ ] Is there anything new in this work?
Yes[ X ] No[ ] Is the relation to previous studies adequately stated?
Yes[ X ] No[ ] Are the assumption(s) and/or method(s) described comprehensively?
Yes[ X ] No[ ] Are the new results adequately emphasized?
Line # Referee’s Comments
11
Please recheck the grammatical error such as: “The aim of this study is…”, some also in the text.
Unrelated sentence must be deleted:
“and 99.8% of 3 ppm Cu ion sorbent at pH ± 7.”
63-67 Reference no [3] is not dealing with chemical modification but radiation one! Please recheck the original reference(s). Use adequate references correctly.
90-98 Please recheck the citation:
Article by Rahmawati was put in ref. no [3] but it stated as no [4]
98 Please add the novelty of this work, different with the previous work
105 - 199
Experimental Method:
Some sentences are still not using past tense, for example “Drying is done in an oven …” in Line # 134. Please recheck again.
The SEM and EDX as experiment tools have not been explaned yet.
337 Add the X and Y axis titles.
609 Put the figure caption under the figure
617 Please change EDAX (machine name) with EDX or EDS (method)
688- 736
References are too poor.
Please correct and improve the reference.
Use valid reference only! There is only1 (one) reference from 14 which is primarily and less than 5 years).
Reference in Indonesian must be srote (translated) to English and put remark in Indonesian (in brackets)
Final comments and recommendations:
Some improvement has been done.
However the authors must rechek and improve the references: there are some errors in the citation, some references were not up to date and some others should be written in English.
By googling the keyword, the author will find many related literatures which may be cited and compare with the current result. Some examples were attached.
This paper is recommended to be [ ] Accepted without further revision [X ] Accepted with minor revision [ ] Major Revision is required [ ] Rejected
