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 …

Materials for the recovery of uranium from seawater

CW Abney, RT Mayes, T Saito, S Dai - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
More than 1000× uranium exists in the oceans than exists in terrestrial ores. With nuclear
power generation expected to increase over the coming decades, access to this …

Amidoxime-based materials for uranium recovery and removal

N Tang, J Liang, C Niu, H Wang, Y Luo… - Journal of materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Resources and the environment are two eternal themes of social development. Nuclear
energy, a green source with high energy density, can greatly alleviate the pressure of the …

Covalent organic frameworks as a decorating platform for utilization and affinity enhancement of chelating sites for radionuclide sequestration

Q Sun, B Aguila, LD Earl, CW Abney… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The potential consequences of nuclear events and the complexity of nuclear waste
management motivate the development of selective solid‐phase sorbents to provide …

Recent advancement in nanomaterials for the detection and removal of uranium: a review

N Rani, P Singh, S Kumar, P Kumar, V Bhankar… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Uranyl ions U (VI), are the common by-product of nuclear power plants and anthropogenic
activities like mining, excess utilization of fertilizers, oil industries, etc. Its intake into the body …

Ultrafast and efficient extraction of uranium from seawater using an amidoxime appended metal–organic framework

L Chen, Z Bai, L Zhu, L Zhang, Y Cai, Y Li… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Enrichment of uranyl from seawater is crucial for the sustainable development of nuclear
energy, but current uranium extraction technology suffers from multiple drawbacks of low …

Carboxyl groups on g-C3N4 for boosting the photocatalytic U (VI) reduction in the presence of carbonates

P Li, Y Wang, J Wang, L Dong, W Zhang, Z Lu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
The photocatalytic U (VI) reduction provides a promising strategy for extracting uranium from
seawater. However, seawater contains~ 2.75 mM carbonates, which would seriously inhibit …

Photoconversion of U (VI) by TiO2: an efficient strategy for seawater uranium extraction

P Li, J Wang, Y Wang, J Liang, B He, D Pan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Uranium extraction from seawater is of significant importance for the sustainable utilization
of uranium in the near future; however, several challenges remain owing to the low uranium …

Mining valuable minerals from seawater: a critical review

P Loganathan, G Naidu, S Vigneswaran - … Science: Water Research & …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Seawater contains large quantities of valuable minerals, some of which are very scarce and
expensive in their land-based form. However, only a few minerals, the ones in high …