Functional nanomaterials for selective uranium recovery from seawater: Material design, extraction properties and mechanisms

Y Wu, Y Xie, X Liu, Y Li, J Wang, Z Chen… - Coordination chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental pollution and resource shortage are two major problems in the current world.
Nuclear energy, a green energy with high energy density, has attracted extensive attention …

Uranium extraction from seawater: material design, emerging technologies and marine engineering

Y Xie, Z Liu, Y Geng, H Li, N Wang, Y Song… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Highly efficient electrocatalytic uranium extraction from seawater over an amidoxime‐functionalized In–N–C catalyst

X Liu, Y Xie, M Hao, Z Chen, H Yang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Seawater contains uranium at a concentration of≈ 3.3 ppb, thus representing a rich and
sustainable nuclear fuel source. Herein, an adsorption–electrocatalytic platform is …

Confining Ti-oxo clusters in covalent organic framework micropores for photocatalytic reduction of the dominant uranium species in seawater

S Zhang, L Chen, Z Qu, F Zhai, X Yin, D Zhang, Y Shen… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Photocatalytic reduction is a promising strategy for uranium extraction from seawater.
However, due to the lack of accessible active sites, current photocatalysts work poorly under …

Photoinduced enhancement of uranium extraction from seawater by MOF/black phosphorus quantum dots heterojunction anchored on cellulose nanofiber aerogel

M Chen, T Liu, X Zhang, R Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract UiO‐66‐NH2/black phosphorus quantum dots (MOF/BPQDs) heterojunctions are
anchored on the carboxyl cellulose nanofiber (CNF) aerogel with high porosity (> 98%) to …

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 …

ZnFe2O4/g-C3N4 S-scheme photocatalyst with enhanced adsorption and photocatalytic activity for uranium (VI) removal

Z Dai, Y Zhen, Y Sun, L Li, D Ding - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
The reduction of soluble hexavalent uranium (U (VI)) to insoluble tetravalent uranium (U (IV))
by photocatalytic method is an emerging and effective approach to remove U (VI) from …

High-throughput production of kilogram-scale nanofibers by Kármán vortex solution blow spinning

Z Li, Z Cui, L Zhao, N Hussain, Y Zhao, C Yang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The interaction between gas flow and liquid flow, governed by fluid dynamic principles, is of
substantial importance in both fundamental science and practical applications. For instance …

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 …