Advanced photocatalysts for uranium extraction: elaborate design and future perspectives

T Chen, K Yu, C Dong, X Yuan, X Gong, J Lian… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nuclear energy has been regarded as one of the promising energy sources to replace
traditional fossil fuels due to its advantages of high energy density and carbon-free …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Recent advances on energy and environmental application of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4)-based photocatalysts: a review

W Zhu, Y Yue, H Wang, B Zhang, R Hou, J Xiao… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
As a typical two-dimensional metal-free material, graphitic carbon nitride (gC 3 N 4) has
shown great potential in energy conversion/storage and environmental remediation due to …

Highly efficient uranium extraction by a piezo catalytic reduction-oxidation process

Y Cai, Y Zhang, Z Lv, S Zhang, F Gao, M Fang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a highly efficient uranium extraction method from water by the piezo catalytic
reduction-oxidation process is reported by utilizing a hollow cubic shaped Zn 2 SnO 4/SnO 2 …

Ternary boron carbon nitrides hollow nanotubes with tunable pn homojunction for photo-assisted uranium extraction: a combined batch, EXAFS and DFT calculations

T Chen, T Liu, L Zhou, M Li, Q Meng, K Yu… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Light-driven catalysis-assisted uranium extraction from seawater opens up a promising
avenue to enhance the extraction capacity, kinetics, and selectivity for uranium removal …

A conveniently synthesized redox-active fluorescent covalent organic framework for selective detection and adsorption of uranium

CP Niu, CR Zhang, WR Cui, SM Yi, RP Liang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Uranium is a key element in the nuclear industry and also a global environmental
contaminant with combined highly toxic and radioactive. Currently, the materials based on …

Immobilization of U (VI) onto covalent organic frameworks with the different periodic structure by photocatalytic reduction

X Zhong, Q Ling, Z Ren, B Hu - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the donor (D)-acceptor (A) covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have
attracted more and more attention in photocatalysis, but the photoinduced electron-transfer …

Unassisted uranyl photoreduction and separation in a donor–acceptor covalent organic framework

Y Song, A Li, P Li, L He, D Xu, F Wu, F Zhai… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The donor–acceptor covalent organic framework (COF) TTT–DTDA (TTT= thieno [3, 2-b]
thiophene-2, 5-dicarbaldehyde and DTDA= 4, 4′, 4 ″-(1, 3, 5-triazine-2, 4, 6-triyl) …