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Adsorption of uranium(VI) from groundwater by amino-functionalized clay

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A kind of amino-functionalized clay was prepared by grafting APTES from clay in the Alxa area (Inner Mongolia, China), and its application for the U(VI) removal from Alxa groundwater was studied in this work. The results indicate that the sorption strongly depended on the pH and ions. The presence of amino functional groups significantly enhances the adsorption of uranium on clay in groundwater. The sorption isotherms fitted well with the Langmuir model, whereas the sorption kinetics could be fitted by a pseudo-second-order model. These findings indicate that amino-functionalized clay can effectively adsorb U(VI) in complex groundwater samples.

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Financial supports from National Natural Science Foundation of China Younth Fun (No. 41603124) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41630646) are gratefully acknowledged.

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    Jianfeng Cheng, Runqiu Gu, Gang Yang, Yanhui Wang & Xianguo Tuo

  2. School of National Defense Science and Technology, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621000, Sichuan, China

    Yangchun Leng

  3. Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, 643000, Sichuan, China

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Cheng, J., Leng, Y., Gu, R. et al. Adsorption of uranium(VI) from groundwater by amino-functionalized clay. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 327, 1365–1373 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-07617-y

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