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New and Simple Synthetic Strategy for 2D Ultra-microporous Aromatic Framework for Sel...
Mudasir Ahmad
and 6 more
January 31, 2023
Economical uranium adsorption from seawater remains a crucial task for energy and environmental safety. Aiming for improving the mass transfer rate of uranium adsorption. Herein, a novel 2D porous aromatic framework(PAF) based on nucleophilic substitution of 2,5-dichloro benzonitrile was synthesized, with an ordered prous structure, excellent stability and selectivity of uranium extraction from seawater. PAF shows excellent uranium adsorption capacity of 637 mg/g and 3.22 mg/g in simulated and real seawater because of highly accessible pores on the walls of open channels. In addition, benefiting from the super-hydrophilicity due to the presence of amidoxime groups attributes high selectivity and ultrafast kinetics with an uptake rate of 0.43±0.03 mg/g.day and allowing half-saturation within 1.35±0.09 day. This strategy demonstrates a potential of PAF not only in uranium trap but also possess a power to monitor water quality. This technique can be extended in other applications by sensible planning target ligands
A Novel Preparation and Vapour Phase Modification of 2D-open Channel Bio-adsorbent fo...
Mudasir Ahmad
and 5 more
May 25, 2022
An economical and highly uranium extraction from seawater remains a crucial task for energy sources and environmental safety. Aiming for improving the mass transfer rate of uranium from seawater, a new synthetic strategy was adopted to synthesize 2D-open channel microporous bio-adsorbent for uranium extraction from seawater. Herein, a vapor phase modification approach was adopted to graft divinylbenzene(DVB), and polyacrylonitrile(AN) onto the surfaces of microporous frameworks via a free radical polymerization method. The post-synthetic functionalization was carried out by hydrothermal process, where amidoxime groups are structure-directing agents to trap uranium. Further, amidoxime groups not only enhanced hydrophilicity but also adjusts adsorbents pKa. AO-Fc faces minimum interference of competing ions and achieves a high uranium adsorption capacity of 8.57±0.02 and 409±1 mg/g in seawater and simulated solution. Despite its stable structure, AO-Fc exhibits a long life span and negligible weight loss revealed AO-Fc could be applied as a potential adsorbent for radionuclides
A Novel Preparation and Vapour Phase Modification of 2D-open Channel Bio-adsorbent Vi...
Mudasir Ahmad
and 5 more
March 31, 2022
An economical and highly uranium extraction from seawater remains a crucial task for energy sources and environmental safety. Aiming for improving mass transfer rate of uranium adsorption from seawater, a new synthetic strategy was adopted for the fabrication of 2D-open channel microporous bio-adsorbent for uranium extraction from seawater. Herein, the in-situ ATRP grafting approach was adopted to graft divinylbenzene, polyacrylonitrile onto the surfaces of microporous frameworks via the vapour phase method. The post-synthetic functionalization was carried out by hydrothermal method, where amidoxime groups are structure-directing agents to trap uranium. Further, amidoxime groups not only enhanced hydrophilicity but also adjusts adsorbents pKa. AO-Fc faces minimum interference of competing ions and achieves a high uranium adsorption capacity of 8.57±0.02 and 409±1 mg/g in seawater and simulated solution. Despite its stable structure, AO-Fc exhibits a long life span and negligible weight loss revealed AO-Fc could be applied as a potential adsorbent for radionuclide.