The faster development of nuclear power on a global scale has led to a continuous increase in the demand for uranium. Thus, huge amounts of uranium-containing wastewater are produced across the nuclear fuel cycle as well as at the time of spent fuel reprocessing.
Uranium (U) is considered to be strongly carcinogenic and highly chemical toxic to the living system. Thus, it is essential to develop materials with the ability to capture U(VI) ions in an effective and selective manner.
In a study reported in the Chemical Engineering Journal, Professor Meiling Feng from Professor Xiaoying Huang’s research group at the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has come up with a layered manganese thiophosphate intercalated with NH4+, namely, (NH4)0.48Mn0.76PS3H2O (N-MPS).
This could quickly and selectively isolate U(VI) from complicated solutions. This is the first instance of synthesizing an intercalation compound of manganese thiophosphite (MnPS3) for efficiently enriching U(VI).
The N-MPS was made by the scientists by immersing some amount of MnPS3 in 2 mol/L NH4Cl aqueous solutions and stirring it for 24 hours at room temperature. The synthesized N-MPS exhibits optimal pH durability (2.8 to 12.2) and β/γ-ray irradiation resistance ranging (from 100 to 200 KGy).
Furthermore, they discovered that N-MPS displayed an excellent capacity (quite greater compared to that of certain reported superior sulfide adsorbents), excellent...
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