Advanced porous adsorbents for radionuclides elimination

M Hao, Y Liu, W Wu, S Wang, X Yang, Z Chen, Z Tang… - EnergyChem, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of nuclear industry, effective management of nuclear waste and
oversight of nuclear fuel cycle are critical. Radionuclides such as uranium (U), plutonium …

Water and metal–organic frameworks: from interaction toward utilization

X Liu, X Wang, F Kapteijn - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The steep stepwise uptake of water vapor and easy release at low relative pressures and
moderate temperatures together with high working capacities make metal–organic …

Tuning excited state electronic structure and charge transport in covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalytic performance

Z Chen, J Wang, M Hao, Y Xie, X Liu, H Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent an emerging class of organic photocatalysts.
However, their complicated structures lead to indeterminacy about photocatalytic active sites …

Semiconducting metal–organic frameworks decorated with spatially separated dual cocatalysts for efficient uranium (VI) photoreduction

K Yu, L Tang, X Cao, Z Guo, Y Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reduction of soluble hexavalent uranium (U (VI)) to sparingly soluble tetravalent uranium (U
(IV)) with semiconductor photocatalysts is recognized as a novel, green, and simple U …

Design and fabrication of hypercrosslinked covalent organic adsorbents for selective uranium extraction

R Leng, Y Sun, C Wang, Z Qu, R Feng… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Uranium detection and extraction are necessary for the ecological environment as the
growing demand for nuclear energy. Hence, exploring stable materials with excellent …

Regenerable and stable sp2 carbon-conjugated covalent organic frameworks for selective detection and extraction of uranium

WR Cui, CR Zhang, W Jiang, FF Li, RP Liang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Uranium is a key element in the nuclear industry, but its unintended leakage has caused
health and environmental concerns. Here we report a sp 2 carbon-conjugated fluorescent …

Benchmark uranium extraction from seawater using an ionic macroporous metal–organic framework

S Mollick, S Saurabh, YD More, S Fajal… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Large-scale uranium extraction from seawater (UES) is widely considered as reconciliation
to increasing global energy demand and climate change crises. However, an ideal uranium …

Regenerable covalent organic frameworks for photo‐enhanced uranium adsorption from seawater

WR Cui, FF Li, RH Xu, CR Zhang, XR Chen… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Uranium is a key resource for the development of the nuclear industry, and extracting
uranium from the natural seawater is one of the most promising ways to address the …

Metal–organic framework-based materials: superior adsorbents for the capture of toxic and radioactive metal ions

J Li, X Wang, G Zhao, C Chen, Z Chai… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Highly efficient removal of metal ion pollutants, such as toxic and nuclear waste-related
metal ions, remains a serious task from the biological and environmental standpoint …

Three mechanisms in one material: uranium capture by a polyoxometalate–organic framework through combined complexation, chemical reduction, and …

H Zhang, W Liu, A Li, D Zhang, X Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The design and synthesis of uranium sorbent materials with high uptake efficiency, capacity
and selectivity, as well as excellent hydrolytic stability and radiation resistance remains a …