An imidazole-based covalent-organic framework enabling a super-efficiency in sunlight-driven uranium extraction from seawater
Lizhen Zhong, Xuefeng Feng, Qingyun Zhang, Xianqing Xie, Feng Luo
Abstract
The natural sunlight is for the first time used to acquire the key of nuclear energy, uranium, from natural seawater with an ultrahigh extraction efficiency of 6.9 mg g −1 day −1 upon a novel COF photocatalyst with ultralow exciton binding energy.
Topics & Concepts
SeawaterUraniumSunlightExtraction (chemistry)ImidazoleCovalent bondPhotocatalysisChemistryEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental chemistryNuclear chemistryMaterials scienceOrganic chemistryPhysicsGeologyCatalysisOceanographyOpticsMetallurgyRadioactive element chemistry and processingCovalent Organic Framework ApplicationsMetal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications