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Radiation induced grafting of amphiphilic double poly(ionic liquid) copolymer onto silica surface for the removal of ReO4− as analogue of TcO4−

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Amphiphilic double poly(imidazole ionic liquid) grafted silica (SMIL-n) was prepared by radiation grafting of hydrophilic 1-vinyl-3-ethylimidazolium bromide and hydrophobic 1-vinyl-3-octylimidazolium bromide at different ratio onto silica. The adsorption behavior of SMIL-n was investigated. The adsorption equilibrium could reach less than 45 min, and their adsorption capacity were 152–171 mg/g obtained from Langmuir model. The selectivity of SMIL-n to ReO4− increased with the increasing content of hydrophobic ionic liquid. SMIL-n displayed good reusability, excellent acid resistance and irradiation resistance. Particularly, SMIL-n showed promising for ReO4− uptake from simulated contaminated Beishan groundwater and radioactive wastewater.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11905070, 11875138), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M650180, 2020T130222) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WUT: 2022IVA066).

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    Na Zhang, Miao Yang, Qiburi Bao & Zhen Dong

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    Manman Zhang & Long Zhao

  3. School of Nuclear Technology and Chemistry & Biology, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xianning, 437100, China

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NZ: writing—original draft, date curation and analysis. MY: supervision and review. MZ: writing—review and editing, date analysis. JD: writing—review and editing. QB: review. LZ: supervision and review. ZD: resources, conceptualization, supervision, writing—review and editing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Zhang, N., Yang, M., Zhang, M. et al. Radiation induced grafting of amphiphilic double poly(ionic liquid) copolymer onto silica surface for the removal of ReO4− as analogue of TcO4−. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 332, 1869–1881 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-023-08849-w

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