Journal of Materials Chemistry A,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
12(17), P. 10539 - 10553
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
The
effective
containment
and
storage
of
iodine
is
important,
fulfilling
both
the
roles
managing
nuclear
waste
ensuring
safe
utilization
radioactive
isotopes
in
medicine.
Chemical Society Reviews,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
52(1), P. 97 - 162
Published: Nov. 30, 2022
Uranium
extraction
from
seawater
(UES),
a
potential
approach
to
securing
the
long-term
uranium
supply
and
sustainability
of
nuclear
energy,
has
experienced
significant
progress
in
past
decade.
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
143(36), P. 14523 - 14529
Published: Sept. 6, 2021
High-speed
capturing
of
uranyl
(UO22+)
ions
from
seawater
elicits
unprecedented
interest
for
the
sustainable
development
nuclear
energy
industry.
However,
ultralow
concentration
(∼3.3
μg
L–1)
uranium
element
leads
to
slow
ion
diffusion
inside
adsorbent
particle,
especially
after
transfer
paths
are
occupied
by
coexisted
interfering
ions.
Considering
geometric
dimension
UO22+
(a
maximum
length
6.04–6.84
Å),
interlayer
spacing
graphene
sheets
was
covalently
pillared
with
phenyl-based
units
into
twice
ionic
(13
Å)
obtain
uranyl-specific
nanofluidic
channels.
Applying
a
negative
potential
(−1.3
V),
such
charge-governed
region
facilitates
unipolar
transport,
where
cations
greatly
accelerated
and
co-ions
repelled.
Notably,
resulting
gives
highest
adsorption
velocity
among
all
reported
materials.
The
capacity
measured
56
days
exposure
in
natural
is
evaluated
be
∼16
mg
g–1.
This
novel
concept
rapid
adsorption,
high
capacity,
facile
operating
process
shows
great
promise
implement
real-world
extraction.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
13(2), P. 3246 - 3258
Published: Jan. 7, 2021
Uranium
is
an
extremely
abundant
resource
in
seawater
that
could
supply
nuclear
fuel
for
over
the
long-term,
but
it
tremendously
difficult
to
extract.
Here,
a
new
supramolecular
poly(amidoxime)
(PAO)-loaded
macroporous
resin
(PLMR)
adsorbent
has
been
explored
highly
efficient
uranium
adsorption.
Through
simply
immersing
PAO
solution,
PAOs
can
be
firmly
loaded
on
surface
of
nanopores
mainly
by
hydrophobic
interaction,
achieve
as-prepared
PLMR.
Unlike
existing
amidoxime-based
adsorbents
containing
many
inner
minimally
effective
PAOs,
almost
all
PLMR
have
high
adsorption
efficiency
because
they
form
PAO-layer
with
molecular-level
thickness
and
ultrahigh
specific
area.
As
result,
this
adsorbing
performance.
The
capacity
was
157
mg/g
(the
UPAO
1039
mg/g),
32
ppm
uranium-spiked
120
h.
Additionally,
1.0
L
100
ppb
U-spiked
both
water
removed
quickly
recovery
reach
91.1
±
1.7%
86.5
1.9%,
respectively,
after
being
filtered
column
filled
200
mg
at
300
mL/min
24
More
importantly,
filtering
T
natural
g
only
10
days,
uranium-uptake
amount
reached
2.14
0.21
mg/g,
its
average
speed
0.214
mg/(g·day)
which
very
fast
among
reported
adsorbents.
This
great
potential
massively
recover
from
uranium-containing
wastewater.
Most
work
will
provide
simple
general
strategy
greatly
enhance
amidoxime-functionalized
area
via
even
inspire
exploration
other
JACS Au,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
3(1), P. 239 - 251
Published: Jan. 4, 2023
Covalent
organic
frameworks
(COFs)
can
be
designed
to
allow
uranium
extraction
from
seawater
by
incorporating
photocatalytic
linkers.
However,
often
sacrificial
reagents
are
required
for
separating
photogenerated
charges
which
limits
their
practical
applications.
Herein,
we
present
a
COF-based
adsorption-photocatalysis
strategy
selective
removal
of
uranyl
in
the
absence
reagents.
A
series
ternary
and
quaternary
COFs
were
synthesized
containing
electron-rich
linker
2,4,6-triformylphloroglucinol
as
electron
donor,
electron-deficient
4,4'-(thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole-2,5-diyl)dibenzaldehyde
acceptor,
amidoxime
nanotraps
capture
(with
[2,2'-bipyridine-5,5'-diamine-Ru(Bp)2]Cl2
secondary
photosensitizer).
The
ordered
porous
structure
ensured
efficient
mass
transfer
during
samples,
with
photocatalytically
generated
electrons
resulting
reduction
adsorbed
U(VI)
U(IV)
form
UO2.
COF,
denoted
COF
2-Ru-AO,
possessed
high
uptake
capacity
2.45
mg/g/day
natural
good
anti-biofouling
abilities,
surpassing
most
adsorbents
thus
far.
This
work
shows
that
multivariate
adsorption-photocatalysts
rationally
engineered
efficiently
stably
without
donors,
opening
pathway
economic
earth's
oceans.