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Enhanced uranium extraction from aqueous solution using hollow ZIF-8

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Recently, highly porous metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), with excellent porosity and abundant functional groups, have represented a new addition to the area of capturing uranium ion pollutants. To achieve high adsorption capacity and removal efficiency of uranium, it is significant to modify the morphology of MOF-based adsorbents. In this contribution, two hollow structured ZIF-8 adsorbents were used for the adsorptive separation of uranium from aqueous solution. Both of them showed faster adsorption rate and larger adsorption capacity than pristine ZIF-8, providing the prospect of hollow MOF materials to the application of uranium extraction.

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Financial support from the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (2019RC005), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22061014 and 21761010), Haikou Science and Technology Project (2020-033) and Hainan University start-up fund (KYQD(ZR)1806) is greatly acknowledged.

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    Yu Ma, Weixin Dou, Weiting Yang, Weikang Yang & Qinhe Pan

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    Yu Ma, Weixin Dou, Weikang Yang & Qinhe Pan

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Ma, Y., Dou, W., Yang, W. et al. Enhanced uranium extraction from aqueous solution using hollow ZIF-8. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 329, 1011–1017 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-07848-z

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