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With the rapid development of the nuclear resource industry, the development of high-efficiency adsorbents is the key to the separation and removal of uranium from aqueous solutions. In this paper, phenyl phosphonic acid was designed as a functional monomer, the aromatic building blocks such as benzene and triptycene as an external crosslinker. Through the “knitting” strategy, a novel phosphonic acid-based functionalized triptycene-based hyper-crosslinked porous polymer (TPP-BPP) and benzene-based hyper-crosslinked porous polymer (B-BPP) were prepared by the above monomer and crosslinker. The resulting polymer B-BPP has a much higher surface area (SBET = 836.21 m2/g) than that of polymer TPP-BPP (SBET = 30.60 m2/g) due to the large skeleton triptycene confines the void. Owing to a large number of phosphonic acid functional groups, the polymer TPP-BPP and B-BPP both have a good ability to remove uranium. The optimal adsorption pH is 7 and the adsorption time is 90 min. Under the best experimental conditions, the maximum adsorption capacity of TPP-BPP for uranium is 119.05 mg/g, and the maximum adsorption capacity of B-BPP for uranium is 222.72 mg/g. Furthermore, in the presence of coexisting ions Na+, Mg2+, Al3+, Co2+, Ni2+, NO3−, CO32−etc., they still have good selectivity to uranium ascribed to the strong complexation between UO22+ and P=O groups anchored on the polymer, which was evidenced by experimental results. Also, it has good reusability and can still maintain a very high removal percentage after at least being recycled five times. Therefore, the convenient synthesis route for the novel phosphonic acid-based functionalized hyper-crosslinked porous polymer has a promising application prospect for uranium adsorption.
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Financial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation of China (21908022), the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation (20202BAB213009), Jiangxi Provincial Key Innovation Project (202110405013), and the Scientific and Technical Project of the Educational Department in Jiangxi Province (GJJ18040303).
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He, Y., Bao, W., Li, B. et al. Highly efficient removal of uranium from aqueous solution by a novel robust phosphonic acid functionalized aromatic-based hyper-crosslinked porous polymer. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 331, 3745–3756 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08395-x
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