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Amidoxime-based hollow gear polyethylene fibers for rapid and efficient capture of uranyl carbonate from aqueous solutions possessing high fluoride tolerance

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The amidoxime(AO)-based polyethylene (PE) nonwoven fabric and round fiber usually present slow sorption rate of uranium (U(VI)). Herein, a kind of AO-based hollow gear PE fiber was fabricated by radiation grafting of acrylonitrile and methacrylic acid. Results showed that the equilibrium sorption time of AO-based hollow gear PE fiber was merely one-third of AO-based round fiber, and one-sixth of AO-based nonwoven fabric, respectively. The U(VI) sorption behavior obeyed the models of pseudo-second-order and Freundlich isotherm. The U(VI) uptake amount at equilibrium was 151.7 mg/g. The remaining U(VI) concentration was effectively reduced from 40.0 mg/L to 16.0 μg/L.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Numbers: 11605275 and 11675247).

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  1. Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 2019 Jialuo Road, Jiading District, Shanghai, 201800, China

    Rong Li, Xinxin Feng, Yang Gao, Mingxing Zhang, Zhe Xing & Guozhong Wu

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Xinxin Feng, Yang Gao & Mingxing Zhang

  3. School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 200031, China

    Guozhong Wu

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Li, R., Feng, X., Gao, Y. et al. Amidoxime-based hollow gear polyethylene fibers for rapid and efficient capture of uranyl carbonate from aqueous solutions possessing high fluoride tolerance. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 331, 255–262 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-08113-z

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