Emerging natural and tailored materials for uranium-contaminated water treatment and environmental remediation

Y Xie, C Chen, X Ren, X Wang, H Wang… - Progress in materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
The rapid growth in nuclear industries such as uranium ores mining, nuclear energy
generation, spent-fuel treatment and nuclear weapon manufacture has caused a legacy of …

Iodine capture in porous organic polymers and metal–organic frameworks materials

W Xie, D Cui, SR Zhang, YH Xu, DL Jiang - Materials Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The enrichment of radioactive iodine in the waste of nuclear industries threatens human
health, and thus the efficient capture of iodine has attracted a great deal of attention in recent …

Water-stable metal-organic frameworks for aqueous removal of heavy metals and radionuclides: A review

M Feng, P Zhang, HC Zhou, VK Sharma - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Heavy metals and radionuclides in water are a global environmental issue, which has been
receiving considerable attention worldwide. Water-stable MOFs are green and recyclable …

Ammoniating covalent organic framework (COF) for high‐performance and selective extraction of toxic and radioactive uranium ions

XH Xiong, ZW Yu, LL Gong, Y Tao, Z Gao… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
An ideal porous adsorbent toward uranium with not only large adsorption capacity and high
selectivity but also broad applicability even under rigorous conditions is highly desirable but …

Metal-organic framework-derived nanomaterials in environment related fields: Fundamentals, properties and applications

Y He, Z Wang, H Wang, Z Wang, G Zeng, P Xu… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) as a new class of crystalline porous materials,
composing of metal nodes and organic linkers, have been extensively used as versatile …

Hydroxyapatite modified ZIF-67 composite with abundant binding groups for the highly efficient and selective elimination of uranium (VI) from wastewater

K Xuan, J Wang, Z Gong, X Wang, J Li, Y Guo… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, nanoscale hydroxyapatite (HAP)-modified ZIF-67 composite, HAP/ZIF-67, with
abundant functional groups for uranium (VI) binding was synthesized via a facile ultrasound …

Amino-functionalized MOF-on-MOF architectural nanocomplexes composed for radioactive-iodine efficient adsorption

L Liu, L Chen, K Thummavichai, Z Ye, Y Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The effective capture of radioactive iodine vapor is crucial for radiation safety during spent
fuel reprocessing. However, current materials used for iodine vapor capture have limitations …

Linking nitrogen-rich organic cages into isoreticular covalent organic frameworks for enhancing iodine adsorption capability

K Cheng, H Li, Z Li, PZ Li, Y Zhao - ACS Materials Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
By linking a nitrogen-rich organic cage with linear connectors, three cage-based isoreticular
covalent organic frameworks, ie, Cage-IRCOF-1, Cage-IRCOF-2, Cage-IRCOF-3, were …

From Supramolecular Organic Cages to Porous Covalent Organic Frameworks for Enhancing Iodine Adsorption Capability by Fully Exposed Nitrogen‐Rich Sites

K Cheng, H Li, JR Wang, PZ Li, Y Zhao - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In order to overcome the limitations of supramolecular organic cages for their incomplete
accessibility of active sites in the solid state and uneasy recyclability in liquid solution, herein …

Efficient thorium (IV) removal by two-dimensional Ti2CTx MXene from aqueous solution

S Li, L Wang, J Peng, M Zhai, W Shi - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
A new group of two-dimensional (2D) materials known as MXene has induced great
interests in water purification due to their hydrophilic surface and abundant functional …