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High effectiveness of pure polydopamine in extraction of uranium and plutonium from groundwater and seawater.

ABSTRACT: Sorption properties of polydopamine (PDA) for uranium and plutonium from an aqueous environment are reported at three different pH values (2, 4 and 6.5-7). In addition to deionized (DI) water, artificial groundwater (GW) and seawater (SW) were used with U uptake close to 100% in each case. PDA polymer has been identified as a material with extremely high sorption capacity Q _max ∼500 mg g^-1 of the polymer at pH 6.5 and high selectivity for uranium. Similar high sorption properties are revealed for plutonium uptake. PDA-uranyl and PDA-plutonium interactions responsible for the observed adsorption processes have been addressed with a set of experimental techniques including FTIR spectroscopy, electron microscopy and cyclic voltammetry.

SUBMITTER: Bliznyuk VN

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9072137 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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High effectiveness of pure polydopamine in extraction of uranium and plutonium from groundwater and seawater.

Bliznyuk Valery N VN Kołacińska Kamila K Pud Alexander A AA Ogurtsov Nikolay A NA Noskov Yuriy V YV Powell Brian A BA DeVol Timothy A TA

RSC advances 20190924 52

Sorption properties of polydopamine (PDA) for uranium and plutonium from an aqueous environment are reported at three different pH values (2, 4 and 6.5-7). In addition to deionized (DI) water, artificial groundwater (GW) and seawater (SW) were used with U uptake close to 100% in each case. PDA polymer has been identified as a material with extremely high sorption capacity Q max ∼500 mg g-1 of the polymer at pH 6.5 and high selectivity for uranium. Similar high sorpti ...[more]

PMID: 35530251

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High effectiveness of pure polydopamine in extraction of uranium and plutonium from groundwater and seawater.

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High effectiveness of pure polydopamine in extraction of uranium and plutonium from groundwater and seawater.

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