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 …

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 …

Functionalized iron–nitrogen–carbon electrocatalyst provides a reversible electron transfer platform for efficient uranium extraction from seawater

H Yang, X Liu, M Hao, Y Xie, X Wang, H Tian… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Uranium extraction from seawater provides an opportunity for sustainable fuel supply to
nuclear power plants. Herein, an adsorption–electrocatalysis strategy is demonstrated for …

Modulating uranium extraction performance of multivariate covalent organic frameworks through donor–acceptor linkers and amidoxime nanotraps

M Hao, Y Xie, X Liu, Z Chen, H Yang, GIN Waterhouse… - JACS au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) can be designed to allow uranium extraction from
seawater by incorporating photocatalytic linkers. However, often sacrificial reagents are …

Converging cooperative functions into the nanospace of covalent organic frameworks for efficient uranium extraction from seawater

M Hao, Z Chen, X Liu, X Liu, J Zhang, H Yang… - Ccs …, 2022 - chinesechemsoc.org
The extraction of uranium from seawater is challenging though it offers tremendous potential
for the sustainable production of nuclear fuel for the energy sector. Herein, we report a new …

Selective extraction of uranium from seawater with biofouling-resistant polymeric peptide

Y Yuan, Q Yu, M Cao, L Feng, S Feng, T Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Nuclear power could continue to be a reliable and carbon-free energy source at least from a
near-term perspective. In addition to the safety issues, another risk that may threaten the …

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 …

Significantly enhanced uranium extraction from seawater with mass produced fully amidoximated nanofiber adsorbent

D Wang, J Song, J Wen, Y Yuan, Z Liu… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The oceans contain hundreds of times more uranium than terrestrial ores. Fiber‐based
adsorption is considered to be the most promising method to realize the industrialization of …