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

Y **e, 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 …

3D hierarchical porous amidoxime fibers speed up uranium extraction from seawater

X Xu, H Zhang, J Ao, L Xu, X Liu, X Guo, J Li… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of amidoxime-based polymeric (ABP) fibers offers a solution for uranium
extraction from seawater (UES) and provides an alternative solution to the uranium resource …

A bio‐inspired nano‐pocket spatial structure for targeting uranyl capture

Y Yuan, S Feng, L Feng, Q Yu, T Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Biology has evolved excellent spatial structures for high‐selectivity and high‐affinity capture
of heavy metals. Inspired by the spatial structure of the superb‐uranyl binding protein SUP …

Functional fibrous materials-based adsorbents for uranium adsorption and environmental remediation

F Ma, Y Gui, P Liu, Y Xue, W Song - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Uranium adsorption and recovery becomes more and more important with the rapid growth
of the nuclear industry. Compared with the typical uranium adsorbents such as inorganic …

Amidoxime group‐anchored single cobalt atoms for anti‐biofouling during uranium extraction from seawater

W Sun, L Feng, J Zhang, K Lin, H Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Marine biofouling is one of the most significant challenges hindering practical uranium
extraction from seawater. Single atoms have been widely used in catalytic applications …

Functionalized porous aromatic framework for efficient uranium adsorption from aqueous solutions

B Li, Q Sun, Y Zhang, CW Abney, B Aguila… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate the successful functionalization of a porous aromatic framework for uranium
extraction from water as exemplified by grafting PAF-1 with the uranyl chelating amidoxime …

Advanced amidoximated polyethylene nanofibrous membranes for practical uranium extraction from seawater

R Yu, X Zhang, Y Lu, W Chen, X Chen… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
As the key material of the adsorption method used for practical uranium extraction from
seawater, the adsorbent should have a high uranium adsorption capacity and long service …

Extracting uranium from seawater: promising AF series adsorbents

S Das, Y Oyola, RT Mayes, CJ Janke… - Industrial & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A new family of high-surface-area polyethylene fiber adsorbents named the AF series was
recently developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The AF series adsorbents …