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Synthesis of ordered mesoporous carbonaceous materials and their highly efficient capture of uranium from solutions

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An extremely effortless method was applied for successful synthesis of mesoporous carbonaceous materials (MCMs) using well-ordered mesoporous silica as template. Various characterizations (scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Raman, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Brunner-Emmet-Teller (BET) and Zeta potential) confirmed that MCMs had large surface area, uniform pore size distribution, and abundant oxygen-containing functional groups. The batch techniques were employed to study U(VI) adsorption on MCMs under a wide range of experiment conditions. The adsorption kinetics of U(VI) onto MCMs were well-fitted by pseudo-second-order kinetic model, indicating a chemisorption process. The excellent adsorption capacity of MCMs calculated from the Langmuir model was 293.95 mg g−1 at pH 4.0. The FT-IR and XPS analyses further evidenced that the binding of U(VI) onto MCMs was ascribed to the plentiful adsorption sites (–OH and –COOH groups) in the internal mesoporous structure, which could efficiently trap guest U(VI) ions. The results presented herein revealed that MCMs were ideal adsorbents in the efficient elimination of uranium or other lanthanides/actinides from aqueous solutions, which would play an important role in environmental pollution management application.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91326202, 21577032), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JB2015001, JB2017057), the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions. X. Wang acknowledges the CAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Team of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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  1. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China

    Chenlu Zhang, Xing Li, Zhongshan Chen, Tao Wen, Shuyi Huang & Xiangke Wang

  2. NAAM Research Group, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

    Tasawar Hayat, Ahmed Alsaedi & Xiangke Wang

  3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China

    Xiangke Wang

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Zhang, C., Li, X., Chen, Z. et al. Synthesis of ordered mesoporous carbonaceous materials and their highly efficient capture of uranium from solutions. Sci. China Chem. 61, 281–293 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-017-9132-7

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