A Universally Applicable Strategy for Construction of Anti-Biofouling Adsorbents for Enhanced Uranium Recovery from Seawater.

ABSTRACT: The ocean reserves 4.5 billion tons of uranium and amounts to a nearly inexhaustible uranium supply. Biofouling in the ocean is one of the most severe factors that hazard uranium extraction and even cause the failure of uranium extraction. Therefore, development of uranium adsorbents with biofouling resistance is highly urgent. Herein, a strategy for constructing anti-biofouling adsorbents with enhanced uranium recovery capacity in natural seawater is developed. This strategy can be widely applied to modify currently available carboxyl-contained adsorbents, including the most popular amidoxime-based adsorbent and carboxyl metal organic framework adsorbent, using a simple one-step covalent cross-link reaction between the antibacterial compound and the adsorbent. The prepared anti-biofouling

SUBMITTER: Yu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6662298 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature