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Polypropylene nonwoven fabric modified with oxime and guanidine for antibiofouling and highly selective uranium recovery from seawater

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A novel adsorbent for antibiofouling and highly selective uranium recovery from seawater is developed in this work. Specifically, the polypropylene nonwoven fabric modified with oxime and guanidine was obtained by subsequent radiation-grafting, ring-opening and oximation reaction. The adsorbent demonstrates outstanding selectivity for uranium(VI) against other competing metal ions in real seawater. The antibacterial assay indicated the adsorbent has good antibacterial properties against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. XPS spectra indicate that uranium(VI) is adsorbed on the non-woven through the interaction with multiple groups. This work shows that the sorbent may be a hopeful material for the extraction of uranium from seawater.

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This work is supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (U1867206), a Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD), and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection.

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    Sen Yang, Suya Cai, Meiyu Xu & Daoben Hua

  2. Xi’an Research Institution of Hi-Tech, Xi’an, 710025, China

    Guoxun Ji

  3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiological Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Suzhou, 215123, China

    Daoben Hua

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Yang, S., Ji, G., Cai, S. et al. Polypropylene nonwoven fabric modified with oxime and guanidine for antibiofouling and highly selective uranium recovery from seawater. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 321, 323–332 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-019-06578-7

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