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Silica monoliths loaded with hexacyanoferrate (HCF) nanoparticles were designed and synthesized to selectively remove Cs+ ions from an aqueous saline solution within a continuous flow set-up. The decontamination and hydrodynamic efficiency of this smart material was compared to other granularly supported HCF. Finally, a thermal treatment was applied to transform the HCF functionalized monolith into a final waste form matrix.
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Research was conducted in part by the Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials (CHWM), an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award DE-SC0016574. A part of this research used resources of XPD beamline of the National Synchrotron Light Source II, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-SC0012704. We also thank the EDDEM-CEA Project for funding this work, and Virginie Fremy for aqueous sample analysis, and Lionel Campayo for fruitful discussion.
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Cabaud, C., Barré, Y., De Windt, L. et al. Removing Cs within a continuous flow set-up by an ionic exchanger material transformable into a final waste form. Adsorption 25, 765–771 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10450-019-00040-6
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