Oxide–and silicate–water interfaces and their roles in technology and the environment

JL Bañuelos, E Borguet, GE Brown Jr… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

[HTML][HTML] Uranium in natural waters and the environment: Distribution, speciation and impact

PL Smedley, DG Kinniburgh - Applied Geochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The concentrations of U in natural waters are usually low, being typically less than 4 μg/L in
river water, around 3.3 μg/L in open seawater, and usually less than 5 μg/L in groundwater …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Uranium mobility in organic matter-rich sediments: A review of geological and geochemical processes

SA Cumberland, G Douglas, K Grice, JW Moreau - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Uranium (U) is of enormous global importance because of its use in energy generation,
albeit with potential environmental legacies. While naturally occurring U is widespread in the …

Long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel

RC Ewing - Nature Materials, 2015 - nature.com
Long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel | Nature Materials Skip to main content Thank you for
visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the …

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) …

[HTML][HTML] The biogeochemistry and bioremediation of uranium and other priority radionuclides

L Newsome, K Morris, JR Lloyd - Chemical Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Microbial metabolism has the potential to alter the solubility of a broad range of priority
radionuclides, including uranium, other actinides and fission products. Of notable interest …

A critical review on the occurrence and distribution of the uranium-and thorium-decay nuclides and their effect on the quality of groundwater

A Vengosh, RM Coyte, J Podgorski… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
This critical review presents the key factors that control the occurrence of natural elements
from the uranium-and thorium-decay series, also known as naturally occurring radioactive …

Redox‐active two‐dimensional covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for selective reductive separation of valence‐variable, redox‐sensitive and long‐lived …

Y Li, X Guo, X Li, M Zhang, Z Jia, Y Deng… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We report the first example of 2D covalent organic framework nanosheets (Redox‐COF1) for
the selective reduction and in situ loading of valence‐variable, redox‐sensitive and long …