Designing self-adaptative cyclized polyacrylonitrile-polyethyleneimine conjugates enhance uranium extraction from natural seawater [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsUranium extraction from seawater offers a promising route to secure sustainable nuclear fuel and mitigate environmental issues from fossil fuel consumption, yet it remains hindered by low extraction efficiency and severe biofouling.
Ying Wang +8 more
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Latest Research Progress of Uranium Extraction From Seawater
He huaxue yu fangshe huaxue, 2022 Natural uranium is an important material basis to ensure the sustainable and stable development of national nuclear energy. Ocean contains abundant natural uranium resources, and the extraction of uranium from seawater is of great strategic and economic ...
LI Zi-ming +7 more
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Absorbents for Uranium Extraction From Seawater
SusMatSeawater contains approximately 4.5 billion tons of dissolved uranium, making it a significant potential source of nuclear fuel. However, the low uranium concentration, interference from competing ions, and the complex marine environment pose major ...
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Extraction of uranium from seawater: a few facts [PDF]
EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies, 2016 Although uranium concentration in seawater is only about 3 micrograms per liter, the quantity of uranium dissolved in the world's oceans is estimated to amount to 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium metal (tU). In contrast, the current conventional terrestrial
Guidez Joel, Gabriel Sophie
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Hierarchical triple-channel architectures unlock scalable and high-efficient uranium extraction from seawater [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe ocean holds ~4.5 billion tons of uranium, a vast yet underexploited resource for sustainable nuclear energy. However, current seawater uranium adsorbents suffer from poor macroscale structures, limited mass transfer, and inefficient functional group ...
Hui Wang +6 more
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Precise Electrocatalysis on Fe‐Porphyrin Conjugated Networks Achieves Energy‐Efficient Extraction of Uranium [PDF]
Advanced ScienceElectrochemical extraction has the potential to enhance uranium (U) extraction capacity and rates, but thus far, high selectivity and energy efficiency have not been achieved through the design of electrode materials.
Wenwen Wang +8 more
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A synergistic coordination-reduction interface for electrochemical reductive extraction of uranium with low impurities from seawater [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsElectrochemical extraction of uranium from seawater is a promising strategy for the sustainable supply of nuclear fuel, whereas the current progress suffers from the co-deposition of impurities.
Hongliang Guo +8 more
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Advanced ScienceEfficient uranium extraction from seawater is a critical challenge in advancing sustainable nuclear energy, given the vast but dilute reserves of uranium in oceans.
Zejun Song +7 more
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Photoisomerization-mediated tunable pore size in metal organic frameworks for U(VI)/V(V) selective separation [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsSelective extracting uranium from seawater is quite challenging, particularly the presence of vanadium, which poses a significant obstacle for most amidoxime absorbents.
Pengcheng Zhang +10 more
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Permian Large Igneous Provinces and Their Paleoenvironmental Effects
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 417-434., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jun Chen, Yi‐Gang Xu
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