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Amidoximated wooden solar evaporator for high-efficiency nuclear wastewater treatment

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The efficient removal of uranium (VI) (UO22+) is of great significance to the ecological environment. However, there is still a lack of efficient adsorption materials to remove UO22+ in wastewater economically. Because natural basswood has high porosity, natural hydrophilicity, and abundant surface functional groups, wood as a support material has a good application prospect in water treatment. In the present work, the amidoxime functional group (AO) is grafted to the hydroxyl group of the wood fiber (AO-wood). A carbon layer is formed on the surface of the basswood by heating, and some Ag nanoparticles with good optothermal effect are added to the wood tunnel (Ag-C-AO-wood). Ag-C-AO-wood is used for efficient wastewater treatment under light conditions. The adsorption kinetic of Ag-C-AO-wood is 4.6 h under one irradiation, which is 7 times faster than AO-wood. It has approached or even surpassed some traditional carbon materials with stirring. This method is expected to break the traditional stirring method. Ag-C-AO-wood can not only remove uranium up to 82% but also have a good removal efficiency (27%) on iodide ions. More importantly, due to basswood characteristics, it is possible to large-scale preparation and explore its potential application value in wastewater.

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We thank the financial support of the Longshan academic talent research supporting program of SWUST (18LZX204 and 17LZX449).

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  1. National Co-Innovation Center for Nuclear Waste Disposal and Environmental Safety, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, China

    Zhuang Wang, Zeru Wang, Yi He & Tao Duan

  2. Fundamental Science on Nuclear Wastes and Environmental Safety Laboratory, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, China

    Zhuang Wang, Zeru Wang, Yi He & Tao Duan

  3. Sichuan Co-Innovation Center for New Energetic Materials, Mianyang, 621010, China

    Zhuang Wang, Zeru Wang, Yi He & Tao Duan

  4. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, China

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ZW carried out the experimental work and writing the draft manuscript. TD commented and supervised the experiment. ZRW performed the calculation of the model. ZJ performed the analysis the results of the manuscript. YH supervised the project and manuscript. All authors contributed to the research article and approved the final version.

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Wang, Z., Wang, Z., Jiang, Z. et al. Amidoximated wooden solar evaporator for high-efficiency nuclear wastewater treatment. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 46053–46062 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13688-x

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