Encapsulating Ag nanoparticles into ZIF-8 as an efficient strategy to boost uranium photoreduction without sacrificial agents
Pengyan Jiang, Kaifu Yu, Haibo Yuan, Rong He, Mengping Sun, Feng Tao, Liangbing Wang, Wenkun Zhu
Abstract
Hot electrons generated over Ag nanoparticles were transferred to ZIF-8 to efficiently reduce adsorbed U(<sc>vi</sc>). The coherence between adsorption sites and electron acceptors directly contributes to the excellent U(<sc>vi</sc>) enrichment performance.
Topics & Concepts
AdsorptionNanoparticleUraniumChemistryNanotechnologyElectronChemical engineeringMaterials scienceNuclear chemistryPhotochemistryOrganic chemistryMetallurgyPhysicsEngineeringQuantum mechanicsRadioactive element chemistry and processingNuclear Materials and PropertiesCovalent Organic Framework Applications