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Extraction of uranyl peroxo clusters from aqueous solution by mesoporous silica SBA-15

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Soluble uranyl peroxo clusters in aqueous solution are potentially important for the transport and remediation of uranium. We studied extraction of one of such clusters, U60 [(Li48+mK12(OH)m[UO2(O2)(OH)]60(H2O)n, m ≈ 20, n ≈ 310 in the solid state], from aqueous solution using mesoporous silica SBA-15. A steady state was reached after 24 h with the extraction efficiency of 97.1 % and a distribution coefficient of 886.8 mL g−1. Both pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order models describe the extraction kinetics, although the pseudo second-order model has a slightly higher correlation coefficient and a calculated extraction capacity at steady state (6.48 mg g−1) closer to the experimental value (6.77 mg g−1).

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Acknowledgments

This material is based on work supported as part of the Material Science of Actinides Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, and Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number DE-SC0001089. We thank Dr. Sergei Rouvimov for TEM collection through Notre Dame Integrated Image Facility (NDIIF) and instrument supports from Center for Environmental Science & Technology (CEST) at University of Notre Dame. Raman spectra were collected at the Materials Characterization Facility of the Center for Sustainable Energy at the University of Notre Dame. ESI–MS was conducted at the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Yi Liu & Peter C. Burns

  2. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA

    Alicia Czarnecki, Jennifer E. S. Szymanowski, Ginger E. Sigmon & Peter C. Burns

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Liu, Y., Czarnecki, A., Szymanowski, J.E.S. et al. Extraction of uranyl peroxo clusters from aqueous solution by mesoporous silica SBA-15. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 303, 2257–2262 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-014-3740-7

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