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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 460, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132356
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Amidoxime; Uranium Extraction from Seawater; Uranium Photoreduction
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In this study, amidoxime-rich g-C3N4 material was successfully synthesized for photo-assisted uranium extraction from seawater. The material exhibited excellent photocatalytic activity and antibacterial properties, overcoming the limitation of uranium extraction caused by marine biofouling.
The development of inexpensive and efficient semiconductor catalysts for photo-assisted uranium extraction from seawater remains a huge challenge. Herein, we have successfully synthesized amidoxime-rich g-C3N4 (AOC3N4) by simply amidoximing a cyano-rich precursor for photo-assisted uranium extraction from seawater. The amidoxime groups not only served as the U(VI) binding sites for efficient uranium adsorption, but also significantly improved the visible light absorption capacity and carrier separation efficiency via introducing defect energy level, resulting in the excellent photocatalytic activity for AO-C3N4 towards photo-assisted uranium extraction. In the process of photo-assisted uranium extraction, U(VI) was first adsorbed by the amidoxime groups on the AO-C3N4 and then reduced to U(IV), while (UO2)O2.2H2O and (UO2)O2.4H2O were further formed by the oxidation of U(IV) by superoxide radicals (.O2- ). Moreover, the generated reactive oxygen species (ROS) under light endowed AO-C3N4 with outstanding antibacterial properties, preventing the limitation of uranium extraction capacity from marine biofouling.
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