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Preparation and performance of silver-incorporated antibacterial amidoximated electrospun nanofiber for uranium extraction from seawater

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To avoid the interference of biofouling on the adsorbents towards uranium extraction from seawater, a silver-incorporated antibacterial amidoximated nanofiber adsorbent (PAO@AgNP) was designed and prepared via electrospinning in this study. The uranium adsorption experiments conducted in uranium-spiked seawater showed the material possessed good uranium adsorption capacity (11.89 mg/g), and the antibacterial experiments demonstrated that PAO@AgNP could effectively remove Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus, the released silver could interrupt cellular respiration, lead to lipid peroxidation and eventually apoptosis.

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This study is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21876073).

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    Ruopei Sun, Chao Jiang, Ziyao Du, Huilian Mo, Jing Wang & Suwen Chen

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Sun, R., Qu, C., Jiang, C. et al. Preparation and performance of silver-incorporated antibacterial amidoximated electrospun nanofiber for uranium extraction from seawater. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 331, 427–438 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-08087-y

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